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Black Hunger: Food & Politics of US Identity by Doris Witt 1999 Hardcover
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- 9780195110623
- Publication Name
- Black Hunger : Food and the Politics of U. S. Identity
- Item Length
- 6.3in
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, Incorporated
- Series
- Race and American Culture Ser.
- Publication Year
- 1999
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- Textbook
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- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.1in
- Item Width
- 9.4in
- Item Weight
- 23.1 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 304 Pages
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The creation of the Aunt Jemima trademark from an 1889 vaudeville performance of a play called "The Emigrant" helped codify a pervasive connection between African American women and food. In Black Hunger , Doris Witt demonstrates how this connection has operated as a central structuring dynamic of twentieth-century U.S. psychic, cultural, sociopolitical, and economic life. Taking as her focus the tumultuous era of the late 1960s and early 1970s, when soul food emerged as a pivotal emblem of white radical chic and black bourgeois authenticity, Witt explores how this interracial celebration of previously stigmatized foods such as chitterlings and watermelon was linked to the contemporaneous vilification of black women as slave mothers. By positioning African American women at the nexus of debates over domestic servants, black culinary history, and white female body politics, Black Hunger demonstrates why the ongoing narrative of white fascination with blackness demands increased attention to the internal dynamics of sexuality, gender, class, and religion in African American culture. Witt draws on recent work in social history and cultural studies to argue for food as an interpretive paradigm which can challenge the privileging of music in scholarship on African American culture, destabilize constrictive disciplinary boundaries in the academy, and enhance our understanding of how individual and collective identities are established.
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Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0195110625
ISBN-13
9780195110623
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289608
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Publication Name
Black Hunger : Food and the Politics of U. S. Identity
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Series
Race and American Culture Ser.
Publication Year
1999
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
6.3in
Item Height
1.1in
Item Width
9.4in
Item Weight
23.1 Oz
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E185.86.W58 1999
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"An intriguing, provocative work of psychoanalytic theory and literary criticism that seeks to reach beyond a specialized audience."--Choice, "Black Hunger shows the strengths of a cultural studies approach inanalyzing critically taken for granted assumptions propagated in culturallydominant texts.... The originality of [Witt's] approach and the richness of hermaterial will reward readers."--The Women's Review of Books, "An intriguing, provocative work of psychoanalytic theory and literary criticism that seeks to reach beyond a specialized audience."-- Choice " Black Hunger shows the strengths of a cultural studies approach in analyzing critically taken for granted assumptions propagated in culturally dominant texts.... The originality of [Witt's] approach and the richness of her material will reward readers."-- The Women's Review of Books "Doris Witt's study breaks important ground in highlighting food as a site through which to explore the interplay of race, gender, class, and sexuality.... The critical and theoretical perspectives on which Witt primarily draws...prove to be highly effective and relevant.... Scholars who are interested in critical work on masculinities should definitely place this book on their readings list. In addition, Witt has made a most significant contribution to the critical discussions of food and gender advanced in recent times.... Black Hunger is compellingly argued, beautifully written, and fully engaging from beginning to end. Witt has given us nothing less than an intellectual feast."-- American Literature "A fascinating look at food's role in African-American culture."-- Chicago Sun-Times, "An intriguing, provocative work of psychoanalytic theory and literarycriticism that seeks to reach beyond a specialized audience."--Choice, "An intriguing, provocative work of psychoanalytic theory and literary criticism that seeks to reach beyond a specialized audience."--Choice "Black Hunger shows the strengths of a cultural studies approach in analyzing critically taken for granted assumptions propagated in culturally dominant texts.... The originality of [Witt's] approach and the richness of her material will reward readers."--The Women's Review of Books "Doris Witt's study breaks important ground in highlighting food as a site through which to explore the interplay of race, gender, class, and sexuality.... The critical and theoretical perspectives on which Witt primarily draws...prove to be highly effective and relevant.... Scholars who are interested in critical work on masculinities should definitely place this book on their readings list. In addition, Witt has made a most significant contribution to the critical discussions of food and gender advanced in recent times.... Black Hunger is compellingly argued, beautifully written, and fully engaging from beginning to end. Witt has given us nothing less than an intellectual feast."--American Literature "A fascinating look at food's role in African-American culture."--Chicago Sun-Times, "An intriguing, provocative work of psychoanalytic theory and literary criticism that seeks to reach beyond a specialized audience."--Choice"Black Hunger shows the strengths of a cultural studies approach in analyzing critically taken for granted assumptions propagated in culturally dominant texts.... The originality of [Witt's] approach and the richness of her material will reward readers."--The Women's Review of Books"Doris Witt's study breaks important ground in highlighting food as a site through which to explore the interplay of race, gender, class, and sexuality.... The critical and theoretical perspectives on which Witt primarily draws...prove to be highly effective and relevant.... Scholars who are interested in critical work on masculinities should definitely place this book on their readings list. In addition, Witt has made a most significant contribution to thecritical discussions of food and gender advanced in recent times.... Black Hunger is compellingly argued, beautifully written, and fully engaging from beginning to end. Witt has given us nothing less thanan intellectual feast."--American Literature"A fascinating look at food's role in African-American culture."--Chicago Sun-Times"A fascinating look at food's role in African-American culture."--Chicago Sun-Times"An intriguing, provocative work of psychoanalytic theory and literary criticism that seeks to reach beyond a specialized audience."--Choice"Black Hunger shows the strengths of a cultural studies approach in analyzing critically taken for granted assumptions propagated in culturally dominant texts.... The originality of [Witt's] approach and the richness of her material will reward readers."--The Women's Review of Books"Doris Witt's study breaks important ground in highlighting food as a site through which to explore the interplay of race, gender, class, and sexuality.... The critical and theoretical perspectives on which Witt primarily draws...prove to be highly effective and relevant.... Scholars who are interested in critical work on masculinities should definitely place this book on their readings list. In addition, Witt has made a most significant contribution to thecritical discussions of food and gender advanced in recent times.... Black Hunger is compellingly argued, beautifully written, and fully engaging from beginning to end. Witt has given us nothing less thanan intellectual feast."--American Literature, "Black Hunger shows the strengths of a cultural studies approach in analyzing critically taken for granted assumptions propagated in culturally dominant texts.... The originality of [Witt's] approach and the richness of her material will reward readers."--The Women's Review of Books, "Doris Witt's study breaks important ground in highlighting food as a site through which to explore the interplay of race, gender, class, and sexuality.... The critical and theoretical perspectives on which Witt primarily draws...prove to be highly effective and relevant.... Scholars who areinterested in critical work on masculinities should definitely place this book on their readings list. In addition, Witt has made a most significant contribution to the critical discussions of food and gender advanced in recent times.... Black Hunger is compellingly argued, beautifully written, andfully engaging from beginning to end. Witt has given us nothing less than an intellectual feast."--American Literature, "An intriguing, provocative work of psychoanalytic theory and literary criticism that seeks to reach beyond a specialized audience."--Choice "Black Hungershows the strengths of a cultural studies approach in analyzing critically taken for granted assumptions propagated in culturally dominant texts.... The originality of [Witt's] approach and the richness of her material will reward readers."--The Women's Review of Books "Doris Witt's study breaks important ground in highlighting food as a site through which to explore the interplay of race, gender, class, and sexuality.... The critical and theoretical perspectives on which Witt primarily draws...prove to be highly effective and relevant.... Scholars who are interested in critical work on masculinities should definitely place this book on their readings list. In addition, Witt has made a most significant contribution to the critical discussions of food and gender advanced in recent times....Black Hungeris compellingly argued, beautifully written, and fully engaging from beginning to end. Witt has given us nothing less than an intellectual feast."--American Literature "A fascinating look at food's role in African-American culture."--Chicago Sun-Times, "An intriguing, provocative work of psychoanalytic theory and literary criticism that seeks to reach beyond a specialized audience."--Choice"Black Hunger shows the strengths of a cultural studies approach in analyzing critically taken for granted assumptions propagated in culturally dominant texts.... The originality of [Witt's] approach and the richness of her material will reward readers."--The Women's Review of Books"Doris Witt's study breaks important ground in highlighting food as a site through which to explore the interplay of race, gender, class, and sexuality.... The critical and theoretical perspectives on which Witt primarily draws...prove to be highly effective and relevant.... Scholars who are interested in critical work on masculinities should definitely place this book on their readings list. In addition, Witt has made a most significant contribution to the critical discussions of food and gender advanced in recent times.... Black Hunger is compellingly argued, beautifully written, and fully engaging from beginning to end. Witt has given us nothing less than an intellectual feast."--American Literature"A fascinating look at food's role in African-American culture."--Chicago Sun-Times, "Doris Witt's study breaks important ground in highlighting food as a sitethrough which to explore the interplay of race, gender, class, and sexuality....The critical and theoretical perspectives on which Witt primarily draws...proveto be highly effective and relevant.... Scholars who are interested in criticalwork on masculinities should definitely place this book on their readings list.In addition, Witt has made a most significant contribution to the criticaldiscussions of food and gender advanced in recent times.... Black Hunger iscompellingly argued, beautifully written, and fully engaging from beginning toend. Witt has given us nothing less than an intellectual feast."--AmericanLiterature
Copyright Date
1999
Topic
American / African American, Discrimination & Race Relations, General, Women's Studies, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Lccn
98-014128
Dewey Decimal
305.8/00973
Intended Audience
College Audience
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Cooking, Literary Criticism, Social Science
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