Title Every nation has its dish : black bodies and black food in twentieth-century America / Jennifer Jensen Wallach

Published Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2019] ©2019

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Description 1 online resource Contents Creating the foodways of uplift -- Booker T. Washington's multifaceted program for food reform at the Tuskegee Institute -- W.E.B. du Bois, respectable child-rearing, and the representative black body -- Regionalism, social class, and elite perceptions of working-class foodways during the era of the great migration -- World War I, the Great Depression, and the changing symbolic value of black food traditions -- The civil rights movement and the ascendency of the idea of a racial style of eating -- Culinary nationalism beyond soul food Summary This text gives a nuanced history of black foodways across the twentieth century, challenging traditional narratives of 'soul food' as a singular style of historical African American cuisine. It details the experiences and diverse convictions of several generations of African American activists, ranging from Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois to Mary Church Terrell, Elijah Muhammad, and Dick Gregory Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Food habits -- United States -- History -- 20th century African Americans -- Food -- History -- 20th century African Americans -- Social life and customs -- 20th century SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Agriculture & Food. COOKING -- Regional & Ethnic -- General. African Americans -- Social life and customs Food habits United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781469645230 1469645238 9781469645223 146964522X

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