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  • To Live and Dine in Dixie

    The Evolution of Urban Food Culture in the Jim Crow South

    by Angela Jill Cooley ...
    Series series
    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 ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • The Larder

    Food Studies Methods from the American South

    by Andrew Warnes, Angela Jill Cooley, Beth Latshaw, Carolyn de la Peña, David S. Shields, Jessica B. Harris, Justin A. Nystrom, Katie Rawson, Marcie Ferris, Psyche Williams-Forson, Rayna Green, Rebecca Sharpless, Rien Fertel, Tom Hanchett, Wiley C. Prewitt Jr. ...
    Series series
    The sixteen essays in The Larder argue that the study of food does not simply help us understand more about what we eat and the foodways we embrace. The methods and strategies herein help scholars use food and foodways as lenses to examine human experience. The resulting conversations provoke a deeper understanding of our overlapping, historically situated, and evolving cultures and societies.The ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • The American South and the Great War, 1914-1924

    by Annette Cox, James Hall, Fritz Hamer, Angela Jill Cooley, Kathelene McCarty Smith, Keith Phelan Gorman, Janet G. Hudson, Lee Sartain ...
    Edited by Matthew L. Downs and M. Ryan Floyd, The American South and the Great War, 1914–1924 investigates how American participation in World War I further strained the region’s relationship with the federal government, how wartime hardships altered the South’s traditional social structure, and how the war effort stressed and reshaped the southern economy. The volume contends that participation ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

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  • Four Hundred Souls

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  • The Devil You Know

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  • Rooted

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