African & African American Cookbooks American Girls Pastimes Addy's Cook Book. Middleton, WI: Pleasant Co. Publications, Inc., 1994. Burgess, Mary Soul to Soul: A Vegetarian Soul Food Cookbook. Santa Barbara: Woodbridge Pres Publishing Co., 1976 Darden, Norma Jean Spoonbread and Strawberry Wine. New York: Doubleday, 1994. Davies, Muriel Emekunle What's Cooking Today: Recipes Used Around Sierra Leone. Sierra Leone: Gov't Printing Dept., 1996 DeKnight, Freda The Ebony Cookbook; Date with a Dish. New York: Hermitage Press, Inc., 1948 Geraty, Virginia Mixson Bittle en' T'ing': Gullah Cooking.... Orangeburg, S.C: Sandlapper Publishing Co., 1992. Grosvenor, VertaMae Vibration Cooking: or the Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl. New York: Doubleday, 1970 -----.Vertamae Cooks in the Americas' Family Kitchen San Francisco: Koed Books, 1996. Hafner, Dorinda B Dorinda's Taste of the Caribbean. Berkeley: Ten Speed Press, 1996. Harris, Jessica B The Welcome Table: African American Heritage Cooking. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995. -----.A Kwanzaa Keepsake. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995. -----.The Africa Cookbook: Tastes of a Continent. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998 Jones, Wilbert The New Soul Food CookbookNew York: Carol Publishing, 1996. Kaiser, Inez Yeargan Soul Food Cookery New York: Pitman Publishing Corp., 1968 Lewis, Edna The Taste of Country Cooking New York: Alfred Knopf, 1976. Medearis, Angela Shelf Ideas for Entertaining from the A.A. Kitchen New York: Dutton, 1997 National Council of Negro Women The Black Family Reunion Cookbook New: Fireside, 1991. -----.Celebrating Our Mother's Kitchens Memphis: The Wimmer Companies, Inc., 1994. -----.(Cassandra Hughes Webster, ed.) Mother Africa's Table: A Collection of West African and African American Recipes and Cultural Traditions. New York: Main Street Books/Doubleday, 1998. Randall, Chef Joe & Toni Tipton-Martin A Taste of Heritage: The New African-American Cuisine. New York: MacMillan, 1998. Spivey, Diane M. The Peppers, Crackling, and Knots of Wool Cookbook: The Global Migration of African Cuisine. New York: State University of New York Press, 1999. Thurman, Sue Bailey The Historical Cookbook of the American Negro. Washington, D.C.: National Council of Negro Women, 1958. White, Joyce Soul Food: Recipes & Reflections from A.A. Churches. New York: HarperCollins, 1998 Williams, R.O. Miss Williams' Cookery Book [Nigerian Cookery]. London: Longmans, Green & Co.,1957. top

Readings about African American Etiquette Bates, Karen Grigsby & Karen Elyse Hudson Basic Black: Home Training for Modern Times. New York: Doubleday, 1996. Brown, Charlotte Hawkins The Correct Thing to Do--To Say-To Wear. New York: G.K. Hall & Co., 1995 (rpt.) Cole, Harriette How to Be: Contemporary Etiquette for African Americans . New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999. top

Reading about Foodways (African American) Paige, Howard Aspects of African American Foodways. Southfield, MI: Aspects Publishing Company, 1999. Parker, Idella, and Marjorie Keating Idella: Marjorie Rawlings' 'Perfect Maid.'. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1992. Parker, Idella, and Marjorie Keating Idella: Marjorie Rawlings' 'Perfect Maid.'. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1992. Taylor, Joe Gray Eating, Drinking, and Visiting in the South: An Informal History. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1982. Titus, Mary "Groaning tables and Spit in the Kettles: Food and Race in the Nineteenth-Century South." Southern Quarterly 20, no. 2-3 (1992): 13-21. Whitehead, Tony L. "Sociocultural Dynamics and Food Habits in a Southern Community." In Food in the Social Order: Studies of Food and Festivities in Three American Communities, edited by Mary Douglas, 97-142. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1984. Witt, Doris Black Hunger. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. -----. "Soul Food: Where the Chitterling Hits the (Primal) Pan." In Eating Culture, edited by Ron Scapp and Brian Seitz, 258-87. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998. top

Readings about Foodways (During Enslavement) Blassingame, John The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South. New York: Oxford University Press, 1979. Chase, Leah and Johnny Rivers Down Home Healthy: Family Recipes of Black American Chefs. Washington, D.C.: National Cancer Institute, 1993. Genovese, Eugene Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made. New York: Vintage Books, Inc., 1976. Hilliard, Sam "All Kinds of Good Rations." In Hogmeat and Hoecake: Food Supply in the Old South, 1840-1860. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1972. Joyner, Charles Down By the Riverside: A South Carolina Slave Community. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1984. Mitchell, Patricia B. Soul on Rice: African Influences on American Cooking. Virginia: Self-published, 1993. Morgan, Philip D. Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, 1998. White, Debra Grey Arn't I A Woman? Female Slaves in the Plantation South. New York: W.W. Norton, 1985. Shange, Ntozake If I Can Cook You Know God Can!. Boston: Beacon Press, 1998. Sobel, Mechel The World They Made Together: Black and White Values in Eighteenth-Century Virginia. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1987. Yentsch, Anne E. A Chesapeake Family and Their Slaves: A Study in Historical Archaeology. Great Britain: Cambridge University Press, 1994 top

Readings Foodways (General) Brown, Linda Keller, and Kay Mussell Ethnic and Regional Foodways in the United States: The Performance of Group Identity. Knoxville: University of Tennessee, 1984. Camp, Charles American Foodways: What, When, Why and How We Eat in America. Little Rock: August House, Inc., 1989. Counihan, Carole M. and Penny Van Esterik, eds. Food and Culture: A Reader New York: Routledge, 1997. Pillsbury, Richard No Foreign Food: The American Diet in Time and Place, edited by Richard Pillsbury, 165-170. Boulder: Westview Press, 1998. Williams, Susan Savory Suppers and Fashionable Feasts: Dining in Victorian America. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1996. top

Readings about Material Culture Beaudry, Mary C., Lauren J. Cook, and Stephen A Mrozowski "Artifacts and Active Voices: Material Culture as Social Discourse." In The Archaeology of Inequality, edited by Robert Paynter and Randall H. McGuire, 150-191. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1991. Katz-Hyman, Martha B. " 'In the Middle of this Poverty Some Cups and a Teapot': The Material Culture of Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Virginia and the Furnishing of Slave Quarters at Colonial Williamsburg." Research report. Williamsburg, VA.: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1993. Borchert, James Alley Life in Washington. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1982. Carson, Barbara G. "Interpreting History through Objects." Journal of Museum Education 10, no. 3 (1985): 129-133. Carson, Cary "Doing History With Material Culture." In Material Culture and the Study of American Life, edited by Ian M.G. Quimby, 41-64. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1978. Clark-Lewis, Elizabeth Living In, Living Out: African American Domestics in Washington, D.C., 1910-1940. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994. Deetz, James In Small Things Forgotten. New York: Anchor Books, 1996. Ferguson, Leland Uncommon Ground: Archaeology and Early African America, 1650-1800. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992. St. George, Robert Blair Material Life in America, 1600-1800. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1982. Goings, Kenneth W. Mammy and Uncle Mose: Black Collectibles and American Stereotyping. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994. Paynter, Robert, and Randall H. McGuire, eds. The Archaeology of Inequality. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1991. Schlereth, Thomas "Material Culture Studies in America, 1876-1976." In Material Culture Studies in America, edited by Thomas Schlereth. Nashville: The American Association for State and Local History, 1982. Singleton, Theresa, ed. The Archaeology of Slavery and Plantation Life. Florida: Academic Press, 1985. -----.'I, Too, am America': Studies in African American Archaeology. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1994. top

Readings about Migration & Urbanization Adero, Malaika, ed. Up South: Stories, Studies and Letters of this Century's A.A. Migrations. New York: New Press, 1993 Crew, Spencer Field to Factory: Afro-American Migration 1915-1940. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1987. Drake, St. Clair and Horace Cayton Black Metropolis New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1945 Henri, Florette Black Migration: Movement North 1900-1920: The Road from Myth to Man. New York: Anchor Press, 1976. Lemann, Nicholas The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How it Changed America. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. Levine, Lawrence Black Culture, Black Consciousness: Afro-American Folk Thought. New York: Oxford University Press, 1977. Marks, Carol Farewell, We're Good and Gone. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989. Pleck, Elizabeth Black Migration and Poverty. New York: Academic Press, 1979. Griffin, Farah Jasmine Who Set You Flowin'? The African-American Migration Narrative. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. top

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