Getting What We Need Ourselves - How Food Has Shaped African American Life

This multi-generational story begins before the transatlantic slave trade in West Africa and ends with a discussion of contemporary African American vegans. Demonstrating that food has been both a tool of empowerment and a weapon of white supremacy, this study documents the symbolic power of food alongside an ongoing struggle for food access.

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About the Author

Info autore

Jennifer Jensen Wallach is associate professor of history at the University of North Texas. She is the author, most recently, of How America Eats: A Social History of U.S. Food and Culture and Richard Wright: From Black Boy to World Citizen. She is also the editor of the University of Arkansas Press' Food and Foodways series.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Jennifer Jensen Wallach
• Editore: Rowman and Littlefield
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 31.08.2022
• EAN: 9781538172261
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-7226-1
• Pagine: 236
• Serie: American Ways; Getting What We Need Ourselves
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Etnologia > Demologia; Ethnic Studies, Social & cultural history, COOKING / History, Cookery / food & drink etc, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Agriculture & Food, Food & society, Relating to African American people, Cultural studies: food & society, Black & Asian Studies, HISTORY / African American & Black