Hog & hominy : soul food from Africa to America / Frederick Douglass Opie.
"Beginning with the Atlantic slave trade and concluding with the Black Power movement of the 1960s and 1970s, Frederick Douglass Opie composes a global history of African American foodways and the concept of soul itself, revealing soul food to be an amalgamation of West and Central African soci...
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| Other title: | Hog and hominy. |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
©2008.
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| Series: | Arts and traditions of the table.
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| Summary: | "Beginning with the Atlantic slave trade and concluding with the Black Power movement of the 1960s and 1970s, Frederick Douglass Opie composes a global history of African American foodways and the concept of soul itself, revealing soul food to be an amalgamation of West and Central African social and cultural influences as well as the adaptations people of African descent made to the conditions of slavery and freedom in the Americas." "Tracing the class- and race-inflected attitudes toward black folk's food in the African diaspora as it evolved in Brazil, the Caribbean, the American South, and such northern cities as Chicago and New York. Opie maps the complex cultural identity of African Americans as it developed through eating habits over hundreds of years. His grassroots approach reveals the global origins of soul food, the forces that shaped its development, and the distinctive cultural collaborations that occurred among Africans, Asians, Europeans, and Americans throughout history."--BOOK JACKET. |
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| Physical Description: | xv, 238 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [211]-226) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780231146388 (cloth : alk. paper) 0231146388 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780231517973 (e-book) 0231517971 (e-book) |