Getting Something to Eat in Jackson (eBook)

Race, Class, and Food in the American South

Joseph C. Ewoodzie Jr. (Autor)

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2021
320 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-23067-2 (ISBN)

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James Beard Foundation Book Award Nominee * Winner of the Ida B. Wells-Barnett Book Award, Association of Black Sociologists * Winner of the C. Wright Mills Award, the Society for the Study of Social ProblemsA vivid portrait of African American life in today's urban South that uses food to explore the complex interactions of race and classGetting Something to Eat in Jackson uses food-what people eat and how-to explore the interaction of race and class in the lives of African Americans in the contemporary urban South. Joseph Ewoodzie Jr. examines how "e;foodways"e;-food availability, choice, and consumption-vary greatly between classes of African Americans in Jackson, Mississippi, and how this reflects and shapes their very different experiences of a shared racial identity.Ewoodzie spent more than a year following a group of socioeconomically diverse African Americans-from upper-middle-class patrons of the city's fine-dining restaurants to men experiencing homelessness who must organize their days around the schedules of soup kitchens. Ewoodzie goes food shopping, cooks, and eats with a young mother living in poverty and a grandmother working two jobs. He works in a Black-owned BBQ restaurant, and he meets a man who decides to become a vegan for health reasons but who must drive across town to get tofu and quinoa. Ewoodzie also learns about how soul food is changing and why it is no longer a staple survival food. Throughout, he shows how food choices influence, and are influenced by, the racial and class identities of Black Jacksonians.By tracing these contemporary African American foodways, Getting Something to Eat in Jackson offers new insights into the lives of Black Southerners and helps challenge the persistent homogenization of blackness in American life.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.10.2021
• Zusatzinfo: 32 b/w illus. 1 map.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Essen / Trinken ► Länderküchen
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Lebensmitteltechnologie
• Schlagworte: Affirmative Action • Africa • African-American Civil Rights Movement (1954–68) • African Americans • alternative newspaper • anchoring • atlantic slave trade • Availability • Avocado • banquet • Barbecue • BeEF • Behavior • Biscuit • black-eyed pea • black in america • Black Metropolis • Black Panther Party • black people • black pride • Boutique • Bread • bread pudding • brown bread • Buffet • Cafeteria • Carton • Catering • Census block • Chicken as food • Chili con Carne • community development • cooking • Cookware and bakeware • Corn fritter • cornmeal • Cuisine • Cuisine of the Southern United States • Culinary Art • Customer • Dessert • Diner • dining room • dishwashing • door handle • Doughnut • Dried fruit • eating • eric foner • Eugene Genovese • Extended family • Fast food restaurant • flour • Food • Food Choice • Food Day • food history • food industry • Food Policy • Food Safety • food security • Food Studies • Foodways • Freedom Riders • fried fish • Frontage road • fruit salad • gathering place • gravy • grocery store • Haute Cuisine • His Family • Homelessness • Household • house slave • Ice bar • ingredient • Ithaca College • Jackson State University • Jim Crow laws • Johnnycake • King Edward Hotel (Jackson, Mississippi) • Kitchen utensil • Living room • Local food • Lunch • Lunch meat • macaroni and cheese • Market Kitchen • meal • meal preparation • Mentorship • Mexican cuisine • middle class • Mourner • Ms. • Ms. (magazine) • Nadir of American race relations • napkin • natural foods • New York-style pizza • Nutrition • On the Menu • organic food • parking lot • Personal chef • pig roast • Pizza • Plantations in the American South • pork • pork rind • Public housing • Racial segregation • reconstruction era • refrigerator • Restaurant • salad • salt pork • Sausage • scallop • Seafood restaurant • seasoning • Service Provider • sharecropping • Sit-In • Slavery • Social Class • Social Club • Social mobility • Social Movement • Social Structure • Sociology • sorghum • Soul Food • Soul Food Junkies • soup kitchen • Southern Democrats • St. Clair Drake • Study skills • supper • supplemental nutrition assistance program • sweet potato • tablecloth • take-out • Tamale • Their Lives • The Lunch (Velázquez) • Tortilla • Tortilla chip • Tougaloo College • Tulane University • turnip • Types of restaurant • upper middle class • Urban renewal • veganism • Vegetable • Wealth • W. E. B. Du Bois • welfare • white southerners • Whole Foods Market • zip code
• ISBN-10: 0-691-23067-6 / 0691230676
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-23067-2 / 9780691230672