Deconstructing the chicken.(legacies of black women)(Book review)

From: The Women's Review of Books | Date: January 1, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

Building Houses Out of Chicken Legs: Black Women, Food and Power By Psyche A. Williams-Forson Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006, 336 pp., $19.95 paperback

If you cringe every time you see an African American family in a Kentucky Fried Chicken commercial, this book is for you.

Psyche A. Williams-Forson probes the long, fraught historical relationship between African Americans and chicken in Building Houses Out of Chicken Legs, a wide-ranging study centered around black women's experiences. Drawing upon an eclectic array of sources that includes ...

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