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Getting what we need ourselves : how food has shaped African American life
"[T]races the history of African American food habits from West African origins through the twenty-first century, offering a unique set of insights into the daily concerns of black people in the US. The book demonstrates that from capture and enslavement through emancipation, the civil rights m...
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Lanham, MD :
Rowman & Littlefield,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- Culinary origins and exchanges during the Transatlantic slave trade
- Africanisms and adaptation during the era of slavery
- Foodways, resiliency, and white supremacy after the Civil War
- The quest to cook and eat with dignity during the Jim Crow era
- The search for a common table during the Great Depression and World War II
- Food as politics during the black freedom struggle.