Live and Let Di(n)e. Food and Race in the Texts of the American South

Acknowledgments

Introduction

FOODSCAPE

Chapter 1: The domestic culinary spaces of racial encounters in a white household
Pantry and Kitchen as Contact Zones
Kitchen Versus Dining Room
From a White Kitchen to a Black Living Room

Chapter 2: Consuming public spaces: the color lines in Jim Crow dining cars, stores, and cafés
"Separate but Equal" Dining Cars
The Dignity of Shopping
The Transgressive Café

Chapter 3: A sweet taste of victory: food and social drama in the civil rights south
Lunch Counter Sit-ins
"Bigger Than a Hamburger"

FOODWAYS

Chapter 4: From slave food to soul food: the evolution of black southern cuisine
The Definition of Black Southern Foodways
Three Debates About Soul Food
The South and Beyond

Chapter 5: What s on the menu? Competing narratives of black southern culinary culture in soul food
The Nostalgic Rhapsody
The Troublesome Underbelly
The Culinary Fix

Coda: Food for thought

References
Index
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