Hog and Hominy - Soul Food from Africa to America

Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-0-231-14638-8
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 238 mm, Gewicht: 468 g

Reihe: Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History

Frederick Douglass Opie deconstructs and compares the foodways of people of African descent throughout the Americas, interprets the health legacies of black culinary traditions, and explains the concept of soul itself, revealing soul food to be an amalgamation of West and Central African social and cultural influences as well as the adaptations blacks made to the conditions of slavery and freedom in the Americas.

Sampling from travel accounts, periodicals, government reports on food and diet, and interviews with more than thirty people born before 1945, Opie reconstructs an interrelated history of Moorish influence on the Iberian Peninsula, the African slave trade, slavery in the Americas, the emergence of Jim Crow, the Great Migration, the Great Depression, and the Civil Rights and Black Power movements. His grassroots approach reveals the global origins of soul food, the forces that shaped its development, and the distinctive cultural collaborations that occurred among Africans, Asians, Europeans, and Americans throughout history. Opie shows how food can be an indicator of social position, a site of community building and cultural identity, and a juncture at which different cultural traditions can develop and impact the collective health of a community.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Opie, Frederick

Opie, Frederick Douglass

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Sachkultur, Materielle Kultur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of IllustrationsIntroduction1. The Atlantic Slave Trade and the Columbian Exchange2. Adding to my Bread and Greens3. Hog and Hominy4. The Great Migration5. The Beans and Greens of Necessity6. Eating Jim Crow7. The Chitlin Circuit8. The Declining Influence of Soul Food9. Food RebelsEpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex

Über Autor(innen)

Frederick Douglass Opie teaches history at Babson College. He is author of Black Labor Migration in Caribbean Guatemala, 1882-1923 and a blogger at www.frederickdouglassopie.blogspot.com, where he conducts "Daily Musings on Culture, History, and Food with Related Recipes." He has appeared on the popular American Public Media show The Splendid Table and is a regular guest on Philadelphia National Public Radio's The Chef's Table.