[HISTORIC FOODWAYS] Recipes For Respect by Zafar, Rafia - 2019: African American Meals and Meaning

Athens, Georgia: The University of Georgia Press, 2019. Hardcover. Illustrated boards. Fine. 137 pages. 23 x 16 cm. Beginning in the early nineteenth century and continuing nearly to the present day, African Americans have often been stereotyped as illiterate kitchen geniuses. Rafia Zafar addresses this error, highlighting the long history of accomplished African Americans within our culinary traditions, as well as the literary and entrepreneurial strategies for civil rights and respectability woven into the written records of dining, cooking, and weaving. Rafia Zafar is a professor of English, African and African American studies, and American culture studies at Washington University.