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Cooking in Other Women's Kitchens
Rebecca Sharpless
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Paperback / so. Cooking in Other Women s Kitchens: Domestic Workers in the South,1865-1960" Series: John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture (Paperback). Num Pages: black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBS; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; JFSJ1; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 431.
As African American women left the plantation economy behind, many entered domestic service in southern cities and towns. Cooking was one of the primary jobs they performed, feeding generations of white families and, in the process, profoundly shaping southern foodways and culture. Rebecca Sharpless argues that, in the face of discrimination, long workdays, and low wages, African American cooks worked to assert measures of control over their own lives. As employment opportunities expanded in the twentieth century, most African American women chose to leave cooking for more lucrative and less oppressive manufacturing, clerical, or professional positions. Through letters, autobiography, and ... Read more
As African American women left the plantation economy behind, many entered domestic service in southern cities and towns. Cooking was one of the primary jobs they performed, feeding generations of white families and, in the process, profoundly shaping southern foodways and culture. Rebecca Sharpless argues that, in the face of discrimination, long workdays, and low wages, African American cooks worked to assert measures of control over their own lives. As employment opportunities expanded in the twentieth century, most African American women chose to leave cooking for more lucrative and less oppressive manufacturing, clerical, or professional positions. Through letters, autobiography, and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press United States
Condition
New
Series
John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture (Paperback)
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9781469606866
SKU
V9781469606866
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About Rebecca Sharpless
Rebecca Sharpless is associate professor of history at Texas Christian University, USA. She is author of Fertile Ground, Narrow Choices: Women on Texas Cotton Farms.
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