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Author Sharpless, Rebecca, author

Title Cooking in other women's kitchens : domestic workers in the South, 1865-1960 / Rebecca Sharpless
Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©[2010]
©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xxix, 273 pages) : illustrations
Series The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
Contents I done decided I'd get me a cook job: becoming a cook -- From collards to puff pastry: the food -- Long hours and little pay: compensation and workers' resistance -- Creating a homeplace: shelter, food, clothing, and a little fun -- Mama leaps off the pancake box: cooks and their families -- Gendering Jim Crow: relationships with employers -- If I ever catch you in a white woman's kitchen, I'll kill you: expanding opportunities and the decline of domestic work
Summary As African American women left slavery and the plantation economy behind, many entered domestic service in southern cities and towns. Cooking was one of the primary jobs they performed in white employers' homes, feeding generations of white families and, in the process, profoundly shaping southern foodways and culture
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record
SUBJECT Universidad Sergio Arboleda gnd
Subject African American women household employees -- Southern States -- History
Women cooks -- Southern States -- Social conditions
African American women -- Southern States -- Social conditions
African American women.
African American women household employees.
History.
Race relations.
Social history.
Women cooks.
Business.
History
Social Conditions
Commerce
history (discipline)
social history.
business (commercial function)
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies.
African American women
African American women household employees
African American women -- Social conditions
Business
History
Race relations
Social history
Women cooks
Schwarze Frau
Hauswirtschaftsgehilfin
Köchin
SUBJECT Southern States -- Race relations -- History
Southern States. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125633
Subject Southern States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2010015805
ISBN 9780807899496
0807899496
9781469606323
1469606321