To Live and Dine in Dixie : The Evolution of Urban Food Culture in the Jim Crow South.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (222 pages)
- Southern Foodways Alliance Studies in Culture, People, and Place .
- Southern Foodways Alliance Studies in Culture, People, and Place .
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 Strategy -- Notes -- 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.
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 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.
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Food habits -- Southern States -- History. Food -- Social aspects -- Southern States -- History. Cooking, American -- Southern style -- History. Southern States -- Social life and customs. Southern States -- Social conditions.