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

by PsycheA.Williams-Forson (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2006

  $43.30

  Chicken - both the bird and the food - has played multiple roles in the lives of African American women since the slavery era. This book examines the complexity of black women's legacies using food as a form of cultural work. It focuses on the ways black women have forged their own self-definitions and relationships to the gospel bird .