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2016 Choice Outstanding Academic Title
2017 Association for the Study of Food and Society Award, best edited collection.

The fifteen essays collected in Dethroning the Deceitful Pork Chop utilize a wide variety of methodological perspectives to explore African American food expressions from slavery up through the present. The volume offers fresh insights into a growing field beginning to reach maturity. The contributors demonstrate that throughout time black people have used food practices as a means of overtly resisting white oppression—through techniques like poison, theft, deception, and magic—or more subtly as a way of asserting humanity and ingenuity, revealing both cultural continuity and improvisational finesse. Collectively, the authors complicate generalizations that conflate African American food culture with southern-derived soul food and challenge the tenacious hold that stereotypical black cooks like Aunt Jemima and the depersonalized Mammy have on the American imagination. They survey the abundant but still understudied archives of black food history and establish an ongoing research agenda that should animate American food culture scholarship for years to come.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title page, Copyright, Dedication
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  1. Contents
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  1. Foreword
  2. pp. xi-xiii
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  1. Series Editor’s Preface
  2. p. xv
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. p. xvii
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  1. Introduction
  2. pp. xix-xxvi
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  1. Part I: Archives
  1. Chapter 1. Foodways and Resistance
  2. Kelly Wisecup
  3. pp. 30-43
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  1. Chapter 2. Native American Contributions to African American Foodways
  2. Robert A. Gilmer
  3. pp. 44-57
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  1. Chapter 3. Black Women’s Food Writing and the Archive of Black Women’s History
  2. Marcia Chatelain
  3. pp. 58-73
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  1. Chapter 4. A Date with a Dish
  2. Katharina Vester
  3. pp. 74-87
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  1. Chapter 5. What’s the Difference between Soul Food and Southern Cooking?
  2. Gretchen L. Hoffman
  3. pp. 88-103
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  1. Part II: Representations
  1. Chapter 6. Creole Cuisine as Culinary Border Culture
  2. Christine Marks
  3. pp. 106-119
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  1. Chapter 7. Feast of the Mau Mau
  2. Anthony J. Stanonis
  3. pp. 120-133
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  1. Chapter 8. The Sassy Black Cook and the Return of the Magical Negress
  2. Kimberly D. Nettles-Barcelón
  3. pp. 134-147
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  1. Chapter 9. Mighty Matriarchs Kill It with a Skillet
  2. Jessica Kenyatta Walker
  3. pp. 148-161
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  1. Chapter 10. Looking through Prism Optics
  2. Lindsey R. Swindall
  3. pp. 162-175
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  1. Part III: Politics
  1. Chapter 11. Theft, Food Labor, and Culinary Insurrection in the Virginia Plantation Yard
  2. Christopher Farrish
  3. pp. 178-191
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  1. Chapter 12. Dethroning the Deceitful Pork Chop
  2. Jennifer Jensen Wallach
  3. pp. 192-207
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  1. Chapter 13. Domestic Restaurants, Foreign Tongues
  2. Audrey Russek
  3. pp. 208-225
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  1. Chapter 14. Freedom’s Farms
  2. Angela Jill Cooley
  3. pp. 226-241
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  1. Chapter 15. After Forty Acres
  2. Vivian N. Halloran
  3. pp. 242-255
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  1. Afterword
  2. pp. 256-261
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  1. Notes
  2. pp. 262-309
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  1. Contributors
  2. pp. 310-313
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 314-324
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