Eating in the side room : food, archaeology, and African American identity

This text examines the food remains of two African American households of the late nineteenth century in Annapolis, Maryland. As with their white neighbours, the families who lived there participated in the explosive emergence of mass consumer culture. From the second half of the nineteenth century...

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Main Author: Warner, Mark S. (Author)
Document Type: Online Resource Book
Language:English
Published: Gainesville : University Press of Florida , Mai 2016
Subjects:
Maynard-Burgess House (Annapolis, Md.)
Annapolis (Md.) > History
Online Access:http://proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/han/upso-ebooks-altertum/dx.doi.org/10.5744/florida/9780813061115.001.0001
Author Notes:Mark S. Warner
E-Book Packages:Oxford University Press : Florida Scholarship Online / Archaeology Collection
Table of Contents:
  • Food, archaeology, and African American identitySituating the Maynard and Burgess Families
  • Excavating the "other Annapolis"
  • The foods they ate
  • Food as community: Maynard and Burgess food habits in regional contexts
  • African Americans and consumption
  • In the "side room": eating with the Maynards and the Burgesses
  • Conclusions: meals and their legacies.

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