Displaying 1 of 1 2006 Format: Book Author: Williams-Forson, Psyche A. Title: Building houses out of chicken legs : Black women, food, and power / Psyche A. Williams-Forson. Publisher, Date: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2006. Description: p. cm. Contents: We called ourselves waiter carriers -- "Who dat say chicken in dis crowd" : Black men, visual imagery, and the ideology of fear -- Gnawing on a chicken bone in my own house : cultural contestation, Black women's work, and class -- Traveling the chicken bone express -- Say Jesus and come to me : signifying and church food -- Taking the big piece of chicken -- Still dying for some soul food? -- Flying the coop with Kara Walker -- Epilogue : from train depots to country buffets. Subjects: Chickens -- Social aspects. Meat -- Symbolic aspects. African American women -- Food. African American women -- Social conditions. African American cooking Cooking (Chicken) Food habits. Food preferences. Booklist 2006/06 ISBN: 9780807830222 (cloth : alk. paper) 0807830224 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780807856864 (pbk. : alk. paper) 080785686X (pbk. : alk. paper) Control Number: 596446 Local Availability (physical copies):2 (of 2) System Availability (physical copies):2 (of 2) Place Request Add to My List Share Expand All | Collapse All Map It Large Cover Image Availability MARC Record Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1