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This review is from: Black Hunger: Soul Food And America (Paperback)
Using the history of Aunt Jemima as a springboard for researching
the affinity between African-Americans and food, BLACK HUNGER focuses on debates that have been waged over the term 'soul food' since the tumultuous era of the late 1960's and early 1970's. BLACK HUNGER looks specifically at how the association of African- American women with food has helped structure twentieth-century psychic, cultural, sociopolitical, and economic life in America. An association that has blossomed into a complex web of political, religious, sexual and racial tensions between Blacks and whites, and within the Black community itself. Doris Witt uses vaudeville, literature, film and cookbooks to explore how food has been used to perpetuate and challenge racial stereotypes. Hence, the main focus is the controversy surrounding the authenticity of soul food and stereotypical views of black women in the United States. Witt fervidlyly contends that Aunt Jemima was not only used to sell pancakes, but also to perpetuate post-Civil War race and gender hierarchies, including the subordination of African-American women as servants, and white fantasies of the nurturing mammy. As I read this book, I sensed Witt raising her fist in a Black Power salute and wielding her spatula like a sword; as if Aunt Jemima had stepped off the pancake box with vengeance and fury. BLACK HUNGER, which began many years ago as a dissertation at theUniversity of Virginia, is now an extraordinary book that should claim a viable place in African American history. This is a fascinating look at the role of food in our culture. Reviewed by aNN of The RAWSISTAZ™ Reviewers
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African American, Aunt Jemima, Vibration Cooking, Black Power, Quaker Oats, Linden Hills, Elijah Muhammad, United States, Sea Islands, Dick Gregory, Invisible Man, Nancy Green, New York Times, Black Arts, The Nutty Professor, World War, Geechee Girl, Alice Walker, Evelyn Creton, Imitation of Life, Oscar Brown, South Carolina, Aunt Catherine, The Kitchen Crisis, Buddy Love Browse Sample Pages:
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