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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Cooking in Other Women's Kitchens: Domestic Workers in the South,1865-1960

Cooking in Other Women's Kitchens: Domestic Workers in the South,1865-1960

Sharpless, Rebecca

Paperback

Series: The John Hope Franklin African American History and Culture

19th Century United States History20th Century United States HistoryRegional: South

ISBN10: 1469606860
ISBN13: 9781469606866
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: Feb 1 2013
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
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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