Cooking in other women's kitchens: domestic workers in the South, 1865-1960
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1. Verfasser: Sharpless, Rebecca (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press ©2010
Schriftenreihe:John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
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
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 southern foodways and culture
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xxix, 273 pages)
ISBN:0807834327
0807899496
1469606321
1469611023
9780807834329
9780807899496
9781469606323
9781469611020

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