Cooking in other women's kitchens : domestic workers in the South, 1865-1960

Title:

Author:

Sharpless, Rebecca. author.

ISBN:

9780807899496

9781469606323

9781469611020

Physical 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.

Abstract:

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.

Subject Term:

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.

Electronic Access:

http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9780807899496_sharpless

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