Rebecca Sharpless 
Cooking in Other Women’s Kitchens [EPUB ebook] 
Domestic Workers in the South, 1865-1960

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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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Rebecca Sharpless is associate professor of history at Texas Christian University. She is author of Fertile Ground, Narrow Choices: Women on Texas Cotton Farms.

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Idioma Inglés ● Formato EPUB ● Páginas 304 ● ISBN 9780807899496 ● Tamaño de archivo 2.9 MB ● Editorial The University of North Carolina Press ● Ciudad Chapel Hill ● País US ● Publicado 2010 ● Descargable 24 meses ● Divisa EUR ● ID 6469367 ● Protección de copia Adobe DRM
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