Author | : Doris Witt |
File Size | : 42,7 Mb |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Language | : English |
Release Date | : 19 April 1999 |
ISBN | : 9780195110623 |
Pages | : 305 pages |
Black Hunger by Doris Witt Book PDF Summary
Black Hunger looks at how the association of African American women withfood has helped structure twentieth-century U.S. psychic, cultural,sociopolitical, and economic life. Taking as her main focus the debates over theauthenticity of soul food during the tumultuous era of the late 1960's and early1970's, Doris Witt locates complex practices of black intraracial othering inrelation to an ongoing narrative of white fascination with black culture.