Cooking in Other Women's Kitchens

Domestic Workers in the South,1865-1960
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4696-0686-6
Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 521 g

Reihe: The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sharpless, Rebecca

Über Autor(innen)

<strong>Rebecca Sharpless</strong> is associate professor of history at Texas Christian University, USA. She is author of <em>Fertile Ground, Narrow Choices: Women on Texas Cotton Farms.</em>