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Williams-Forson, Psyche A.

Building houses out of chicken legs :

Black women, food, and power /

Psyche A. Williams-Forson.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and

index.

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. Chickens—Social aspects. . Meat—

Symbolic aspects. . African American

women—Food. . African American

women—Social conditions. . African

American cookery. . Cookery (Chicken).

. Food habits—United States. . Food

preferences—United States. I. Title.

Parts of this book have been reprinted

with permission in revised form from the

following works: ‘‘Suckin’ the Chicken Bone

Dry: African American Women, History

and Food Culture,’’ in Cooking Lessons: The

Politics of Gender and Food , edited by Sherrie

Inness, – (Lanham, Md.: Rowman

and Littleﬁeld, ); and ‘‘Chicken and

Chains: Using African American Foodways

to Understand Black Identities,’’ in African

American Foodways: Explorations of History

and Culture , edited by Anne Bower, –

(Urbana: University of Illinois Press, ).

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