Getting What We Need Ourselves
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Getting What We Need Ourselves
Author: Jennifer Jensen Wallach
language: en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Release Date: 2019-06-01
Beginning with an examination of West African food traditions during the era of the transatlantic slave trade and ending with a discussion of black vegan activism in the twenty-first century, Getting What We Need Ourselves: How Food Has Shaped African American Life tells a multi-faceted food story that goes beyond the well-known narrative of southern-derived “soul food” as the predominant form of black food expression. While this book considers the provenance and ongoing cultural resonance of emblematic foods such as greens and cornbread, it also examines the experiences of African Americans who never embraced such foods or who rejected them in search of new tastes and new symbols that were less directly tied to the past of plantation slavery. This book tells the story of generations of cooks and eaters who worked to create food habits that they variously considered sophisticated, economical, distinctly black, all-American, ethical, and healthful in the name of benefiting the black community. Significantly, it also chronicles the enduring struggle of impoverished eaters who worried far more about having enough to eat than about what particular food filled their plates. Finally, it considers the experiences of culinary laborers, whether enslaved, poorly paid domestic servants, tireless entrepreneurs, or food activists and intellectuals who used their knowledge and skills to feed and educate others, making a lasting imprint on American food culture in the process. Throughout African American history, food has both been used as a tool of empowerment and wielded as a weapon. Beginning during the era of slavery, African American food habits have often served as a powerful means of cementing the bonds of community through the creation of celebratory and affirming shared rituals. However, the system of white supremacy has frequently used food, or often the lack of it, as a means to attempt to control or subdue the black community. This study demonstrates that African American eaters who have worked to creative positive representations of black food practices have simultaneously had to confront an elaborate racist mythology about black culinary inferiority and difference. Keeping these tensions in mind, empty plates are as much a part of the history this book sets out to narrate as full ones, and positive characterizations of black foodways are consistently put into dialogue with distorted representations created by outsiders. Together these stories reveal a rich and complicated food history that defies simple stereotypes and generalizations.
Get to Know Yourself
Author: Thelmah Xavela Maluleke
language: en
Publisher: Author House
Release Date: 2014-09-19
"Get to know yourself: A training package for health promoters, health educators, community health workers and peer educators promoting sexual health among young people promoting sexual health among young people" consists of two part, Part one is a book entitled "Get to know yourself: A sexual health guide for young people" and Part Two a handbook entitled "Get to know yourself: A handbook for health promoters and peer educators facilitating sexual health programmes among young people". The package was developed to assist under resourced communities and countries in accessing sexual health information that will have a positive impact on the lives of young people. This training package can also be used by health professionals and other professionals to facilitate sexual health workshops in schools, youth organisations or clubs, puberty rites or initiations, and religious organisations.
Girl Talk 101 A Simple But Yet Complete Guide to Getting Your ''Stuff'' Together!
Author: Erin Johnell Dickey
language: en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date: 2010-04-28
In her first personal growth book, Girl Talk 101: A Simple But Yet Complete Guide To Getting Your Stuff Together, author Erin Johnell Dickey examines many issues in which women face. These issues (better known as stuff) are hindering many women from enjoying all that life has to offer them. It is imperative that women address inner issues such as pain inflicted by others and self inflicted pain caused by negligence. Women must also make their dreams become reality. This book is meant to be an easy reader so that women on the go will have time to read it and apply it in their daily lives.