Black hunger : soul food and America / Doris Witt.

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2004.

292 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Originally published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1999, in series: Race and American culture.

1. "Look ma, the real Aunt Jemima!" : consuming identities under capitalism -- 2. Biscuits are being beaten : Craig Claiborne and the epistemology of the kitchen dominatrix -- 3. "Eating chitterlings is like going slumming" : soul food and its discontents -- 4. "Pork or women" : purity and danger in the nation of Islam -- 5. Of watermelon and men : Dick Gregory's cloacal continuum -- 6. "My kitchen was the world" : Vertanae Smart Grosvenor's Geechee diaspora -- 7. "How Mama started to get large" : eating disorders, fetal rights, and black female appetite -- Appendix : African American cookbooks.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-281) and index.