Insatiable City - Food and Race in New Orleans

"Theresa McCulla probes the overt and covert ways that the production of food and food discourse both creates and reinforces many strains of inequality in New Orleans, a city often defined by its foodways. She uses menus, cookbooks, newspapers, dolls, and other material culture to limn the interplay among the production and reception of food, the inscription and reiteration of racial hierarchies, and the constant diminishment and exploitation of working-class people. McCulla goes far beyond the initial task of tracing New Orleans culinary history to focus on how food suffuses culture and our understandings and constructions of race and power"--

About the author

Theresa McCulla is a curator and historian, and the former curator of the American Brewing History Initiative at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History.

Product details

• Authors: Theresa Mcculla
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.05.2024
• EAN: 9780226833804
• ISBN: 978-0-226-83380-4
• No. of pages: 352
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; History, COOKING / History, Local History, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, History of the Americas, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Race & Ethnic Relations, US South, Cookery / food and drink / food writing, Social discrimination and social justice