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.

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.

Southern States--Social life and customs.

Southern States.

Southern States--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (222 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Athens, Georgia ; London, [England] : The University of Georgia Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

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 like 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 a

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION: The Ollie's Barbecue Case and the Foodscape of the Urban South; PART 1 SOUTHERN FOOD CULTURE IN TRANSITION, 1876-1935; CHAPTER ONE: Scientific Cooking and Southern Whiteness; CHAPTER TWO: Southern Cafés as Contested Urban Space; PART 2 DEMOCRATIZING SOUTHERN FOODWAYS, 1936-1959; CHAPTER THREE: Southern Norms and National Culture; CHAPTER FOUR: Restaurant Chains and Fast Food; PART 3 THE CIVIL RIGHTS REVOLUTION, 1960-1975; CHAPTER FIVE: The Politics of the Lunch Counter; CHAPTER SIX: White Resistance in Segregated Restaurants

Conclusion: Cracker Barrel and the Southern StrategyNotes; Selected Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780820347592

0820347590

OCLC:

907305201