Building Houses Out of Chicken Legs: Black Women, Food, and Power

examines the complexity of black women's legacies with food as a form of cultural work. While acknowledging the negative interpretations of black culture associated with chicken imagery, Williams-Forson focuses her analysis on the ways black women have forged their own self-definitions and relationships to "the gospel bird." From personal interviews to the comedy of Chris Rock, from commercial advertisements to the art of Kara Walker, and from…

Author: Psyche A. Williams-Forson · Original publisher: University of North Carolina Press, 2006 (paperback ISBN 9780807856864)

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