Cooking in Other Women''s Kitchens : Domestic Workers in the South,1865-1960
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1469606860
ISBN-13
9781469606866
Edition
New
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Imprint
The University of North Carolina Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 1st, 2013
Print length
304 Pages
Weight
456 grams
Dimensions
23.10 x 15.20 x 2.20 cms
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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 oral history, Sharpless evokes African American women''s voices from slavery to the open economy, examining their lives at work and at home.
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