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Jennifer Jensen Wallach
Dethroning the Deceitful Pork Chop: Rethinking African American Foodways from Slavery to Obama
Dethroning the Deceitful Pork Chop: Rethinking African American Foodways from Slavery to Obama
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2016 Choice Outstanding Academic Title
2017 Association for the Study of Food and Society Award, best edited collection.
The fifteen essays collected in Dethroning the Deceitful Pork Chop utilize a wide variety of methodological perspectives to explore African American food expressions from slavery up through the present. The volume offers fresh insights into a growing field beginning to reach maturity. The contributors demonstrate that throughout time black people have used food practices as a means of overtly resisting white oppression--through techniques like poison, theft, deception, and magic--or more subtly as a way of asserting humanity and ingenuity, revealing both cultural continuity and improvisational finesse. Collectively, the authors complicate generalizations that conflate African American food culture with southern-derived soul food and challenge the tenacious hold that stereotypical black cooks like Aunt Jemima and the depersonalized Mammy have on the American imagination. They survey the abundant but still understudied archives of black food history and establish an ongoing research agenda that should animate American food culture scholarship for years to come.
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Wallach, Jennifer Jensen
Published: 08/01/2015
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 9781557286796
Pages: 295
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.90d
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2017 Association for the Study of Food and Society Award, best edited collection.
The fifteen essays collected in Dethroning the Deceitful Pork Chop utilize a wide variety of methodological perspectives to explore African American food expressions from slavery up through the present. The volume offers fresh insights into a growing field beginning to reach maturity. The contributors demonstrate that throughout time black people have used food practices as a means of overtly resisting white oppression--through techniques like poison, theft, deception, and magic--or more subtly as a way of asserting humanity and ingenuity, revealing both cultural continuity and improvisational finesse. Collectively, the authors complicate generalizations that conflate African American food culture with southern-derived soul food and challenge the tenacious hold that stereotypical black cooks like Aunt Jemima and the depersonalized Mammy have on the American imagination. They survey the abundant but still understudied archives of black food history and establish an ongoing research agenda that should animate American food culture scholarship for years to come.
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Wallach, Jennifer Jensen
Published: 08/01/2015
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 9781557286796
Pages: 295
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.90d
