To live and dine in Dixie : the evolution of urban food culture in the Jim Crow South / Angela Jill Cooley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cooley, Angela Jill, author.

Series:

Southern Foodways Alliance studies in culture, people, and place

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food habits--Southern States--History.

Food habits.

Food--Social aspects--Southern States--History.

Food.

Cooking, American--Southern style--History.

Cooking, American.

Cooking, American--Southern style.

History.

Food--Social aspects.

Southern States--Social life and customs.

Southern States.

Manners and customs.

Southern States--Social conditions.

Social conditions.

Social history.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

ix, 207 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Athens, Georgia : The University of Georgia Press, [2015]

Summary:

This book explores the changing food culture of the urban American South during the Jim Crow era by examining how race, ethnicity, class, and gender contributed to the development and maintenance of racial segregation in public eating places. Focusing primarily on the 1900s to the 1960s, Angela Jill Cooley identifies the cultural differences between activists who saw public eating places such as urban lunch counters as sites of political participation and believed access to such spaces a right of citizenship, and white supremacists who interpreted desegregation as a challenge to property rights and advocated local control over racial issues. Significant legal changes occurred across this period as the federal government sided at first with the white supremacists but later supported the unprecedented progress of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which-among other things-required desegregation of the nation's restaurants. Because the culture of white supremacy that contributed to racial segregation in public accommodations began in the white southern home, Cooley also explores domestic eating practices in nascent southern cities and reveals how the most private of activities-cooking and dining-became a cause for public concern from the meeting rooms of local women's clubs to the halls of the U.S. Congress. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part 1 Southern Food Culture in Transition, 1876-1935 17

Chapter 1 Scientific Cooking and Southern Whiteness 19

Chapter 2 Southern Cafés as Contested Urban Space 43

Part 2 Democratizing Southern Foodways, 1936-1959 71

Chapter 3 Southern Norms and National Culture 73

Chapter 4 Restaurant Chains and Fast Food 87

Part 3 The Civil Rights Revolution, 1960-1975 103

Chapter 5 The Politics of the Lunch Counter 105

Chapter 6 White Resistance in Segregated Restaurants 128.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780820347585

0820347582

9780820347592

0820347590

OCLC:

892432257