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Cooking in other women's kitchens : domestic workers in the South, 1865-1960 /
As African American women left slavery and the plantation economy behind, many entered domestic service in southern cities and towns. Cooking was one of the primary jobs they performed in white employers' homes, feeding generations of white families and, in the process, profoundly shaping south...
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
2010.
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| Series: | John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
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Table of Contents:
- I done decided I'd get me a cook job: becoming a cook
- From collards to puff pastry: the food
- Long hours and little pay: compensation and workers' resistance
- Creating a homeplace: shelter, food, clothing, and a little fun
- Mama leaps off the pancake box: cooks and their families
- Gendering Jim Crow: relationships with employers
- If I ever catch you in a white woman's kitchen, I'll kill you: expanding opportunities and the decline of domestic work.
- Appendix: Cook's wages, 1901-1960
- I done decided I'd get me a cook job : becoming a cook
- From collards to puff pastry : the food
- Long hours and little pay : compensation and workers' resistance
- Creating a homeplace : shelter, food, clothing, and a little fun
- Mama leaps off the pancake box : cooks and their families
- Gendering Jim Crow : relationships with employers
- If I ever catch you in a white woman's kitchen, I'll kill you : expanding opportunities and the decline of domestic work.