Black Hunger: Soul Food and America

by Doris Witt

Book Overview

Explores the complex relationship between food and African American history In 1889, the owners of a pancake mix witnessed the vaudeville performance of a white man in blackface and drag playing a character called Aunt Jemima. This character went on to become one of the most pervasive stereotypes of black women in the United States, embodying not only the pancakes she was appropriated to market but also post-Civil War race and gender hierarchies--including...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816645515
• ISBN13: 9780816645510
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"