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To Live and Dine in Dixie - The Evolution of Urban Food Culture in the Jim Crow South (Paperback)
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To Live and Dine in Dixie - The Evolution of Urban Food Culture in the Jim Crow South (Paperback)
Series: Studies in Culture, People, and Place
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This book explores the changing food culture of the urban American
South during the Jim Crow era by examining how race, ethnicity,
class, and gender contributed to the development and maintenance of
racial segregation in public eating places. Focusing primarily on
the 1900s to the 1960s, Angela Jill Cooley identifies the cultural
differences between activists who saw public eating places like
urban lunch counters as sites of political participation and
believed access to such spaces a right of citizenship, and white
supremacists who interpreted desegregation as a challenge to
property rights and advocated local control over racial issues.
Significant legal changes occurred across this period as the
federal government sided at first with the white supremacists but
later supported the unprecedented progress of the Civil Rights Act
of 1964, which-among other things-required desegregation of the
nation's restaurants. Because the culture of white supremacy that
contributed to racial segregation in public accommodations began in
the white southern home, Cooley also explores domestic eating
practices in nascent southern cities and reveals how the most
private of activities-cooking and dining- became a cause for public
concern from the meeting rooms of local women's clubs to the halls
of the U.S. Congress.
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