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Cooking in Other Women's Kitchens

Domestic Workers in the South,1865-1960

Rebecca Sharpless

Editore:: The University of North Carolina Press
Collana:: The John Hope Franklin Series In African American History And Culture
EAN:: 9781469606866
ISBN:: 1469606860
Pagine:: 304
Formato:: Paperback
Lingua:: Inglese

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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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Cooking in Other Women's Kitchens

Domestic Workers in the South,1865-1960

Rebecca Sharpless

The University of North Carolina Press

9781469606866

1469606860

Descrizione Cooking in Other Women's Kitchens

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