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Cooking in Other Women's Kitchens - Domestic Workers in the South,1865-1960 (Paperback, New edition)
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Cooking in Other Women's Kitchens - Domestic Workers in the South,1865-1960 (Paperback, New edition)
Series: The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
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As African American women left the plantation economy behind, many
entered domestic service in southern cities and towns. Cooking was
one of the primary jobs they performed, feeding generations of
white families and, in the process, profoundly shaping southern
foodways and culture. Rebecca Sharpless argues that, in the face of
discrimination, long workdays, and low wages, African American
cooks worked to assert measures of control over their own lives. As
employment opportunities expanded in the twentieth century, most
African American women chose to leave cooking for more lucrative
and less oppressive manufacturing, clerical, or professional
positions. Through letters, autobiography, and oral history,
Sharpless evokes African American women's voices from slavery to
the open economy, examining their lives at work and at home.
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