TY - BOOK ID - 135369679 TI - Cooking in other women's kitchens PY - 2010 SN - 1469611023 0807899496 9780807899496 9781469606323 1469606321 9781469611020 9780807834329 0807834327 1469606860 9781469606866 PB - Chapel Hill DB - UniCat KW - African American women household employees KW - Women cooks KW - African American women KW - History. KW - Social conditions. KW - Southern States KW - Race relations UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:135369679 AB - As African American women left slavery and the plantation economy behind, many entered domestic service in southern cities and towns. Cooking was one of the primary jobs they performed in white employers' homes, feeding generations of white families and, in the process, profoundly shaping southern foodways and culture. Rebecca Sharpless argues that, in the face of discrimination, long workdays, and low wages, African American cooks worked to assert measures of control over their own lives and to maintain spaces for their own families despite the demands of employers and the restriction ER -