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Recipes for Respect: African American Meals and Meaning

Name: Recipes for Respect: African American Meals and Meaning
Brand: University of Georgia Press
SKU: 9780820353678
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Contributors:

Rafia Zafar

Publisher:

University of Georgia Press

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Social Science, Cooking

Book Subcategory:

Ethnic Studies, History

Book Topic:

American

Series:

Southern Foodways Alliance Studies in Culture, People, and P

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Release Date:

2019-03-15

ISBN 13:

9780820353678

Weight:

0.41 lbs

Size:

9.00 x 6.00 x 0.37 inches

Pages:

148

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Food studies, once trendy, has settled into the public arena. In the academy, scholarship on food and literary culture constitutes a growing river within literary and cultural studies, but writing on African American food and dining remains a tributary. Recipes for Respect bridges this gap, illuminating the role of foodways in African American culture as well as the contributions of Black cooks and chefs to what has been considered the mainstream.

Beginning in the early nineteenth century and continuing nearly to the present day, African Americans have often been stereotyped as illiterate kitchen geniuses. Rafia Zafar addresses this error, highlighting the long history of accomplished African Americans within our culinary traditions, as well as the literary and entrepreneurial strategies for civil rights and respectability woven into the written records of dining, cooking, and serving. Whether revealed in cookbooks or fiction, memoirs or hotel-keeping manuals, agricultural extension bulletins or library collections, foodways knowledge sustained Black strategies for self-reliance and dignity, the preservation of historical memory, and civil rights and social mobility. If, to follow Mary Douglas's dictum, food is a field of action--that is, a venue for social intimacy, exchange, or aggression--African American writing about foodways constitutes an underappreciated critique of the racialized social and intellectual spaces of the United States.

About the Author
RAFIA ZAFAR is a professor of English, African and African American studies, and American culture studies at Washington University in St. Louis, where she also serves as faculty director of the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship program. Her previous publications include We Wear the Mask: African Americans Write American Literature, 1760-1870 and the Library of America's two-volume anthology Harlem Renaissance Fiction.

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