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050 00 $aHD6072.2.U52$bS574 2010
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100 1 $aSharpless, Rebecca.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n87878860
245 10 $aCooking in other women's kitchens :$bdomestic workers in the South, 1865-1960 /$cRebecca Sharpless.
260 $aChapel Hill :$bUniversity of North Carolina Press,$c[2010], ©2010.
300 $axxix, 273 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aThe John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $g1.$tI Done Decided I'd Get Me a Cook Job -- $tBecoming a Cook -- $g2.$tFrom Collards to Puff Pastry -- $tThe Food -- $g3.$tLong Hours and Little Pay -- $tCompensation and Workers' Resistance -- $g4.$tCreating a Homeplace -- $tShelter, Food, Clothing, and a Little Fun -- $g5.$tMama Leaps off the Pancake Box -- $tCooks and Their Families -- $g6.$tGendering Jim Crow -- $tRelationships with Employers -- $g7.$tIf I Ever Catch You in a White Woman's Kitchen, I'll Kill You -- $tExpanding Opportunities and the Decline of Domestic Work.
520 1 $a"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." "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 and to maintain spaces for their own families despite the demands of employers and the restrictions of segregation. Sharpless also shows how these women's employment served as a bridge from old labor arrangements to new ones. As 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, this book evokes African American women's voices from slavery to the open economy, examining their lives at work and at home. Sharpless looks beyond stereotypes to introduce the real women who left their own houses and families each morning to cook in other women's kitchens."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aAfrican American women household employees$zSouthern States$xHistory.
650 0 $aWomen cooks$zSouthern States$xSocial conditions.
650 0 $aAfrican American women$zSouthern States$xSocial conditions.
651 0 $aSouthern States$xRace relations$xHistory.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010112499
830 0 $aJohn Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n98090591
852 00 $bglx$hHD6072.2.U52$iS574 2010