Black Hunger: Food and the Politics of U.S. Identity [1 ed.] 0195110625, 9780195110623, 9781423759560

Table of contents :
Contents......Page 12
Prologue......Page 16
Part I: Servant Problems......Page 32
One: "Look Ma, the Real Aunt Jemima!": Consuming Identities under Capitalism......Page 34
Two: Biscuits Are Being Beaten: Craig Claiborne and the Epistemology of the Kitchen Dominatrix......Page 67
Part II: Soul Food and Black Masculinity......Page 90
Three: "Eating Chitterlings Is Like Going Slumming": Soul Food and Its Discontents......Page 92
Four: "Pork or Women": Purity and Danger in the Nation of Islam......Page 115
Five: Of Watermelon and Men: Dick Gregory's Cloacal Continuum......Page 139
Part III: Black Female Hunger......Page 166
Six: "My Kitchen Was the World": Vertamae Smart Grosvenor's Geechee Diaspora......Page 168
Seven: "How Mama Started to Get Large": Eating Disorders, Fetal Rights, and Black Female Appetite......Page 196
Epilogue......Page 224
Appendix: African American Cookbooks......Page 230
Chronological Bibliography of Cookbooks by African Americans......Page 234
Notes......Page 242
Works Cited......Page 266
A......Page 295
B......Page 296
D......Page 297
F......Page 298
G......Page 299
K......Page 300
M......Page 301
P......Page 302
S......Page 303
V......Page 304
Z......Page 305