Black Hunger: Food and the Politics of U.S. Identity by Doris Witt

Black Hunger: Food and the Politics of U.S. Identity

Race and American Culture

Doris Witt

304 pages • first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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The creation of the Aunt Jemima trademark from an 1889 vaudeville performance of a play called "The Emigrant" helped codify a pervasive connection between African American women and food. In Black Hunger, Doris Witt demonstrates how this connectio...

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