Annotations:
Using the history of "Aunt Jemima" as a springboard for exploring the relationship between food and African Americans, "Black Hunger" focuses on debates over soul food since the 1960s to illuminate tensions between whites and blacks, and within the black community itself.

Publisher's Remarks:
In 1889, the owners of a pancake mix witnessed the vaudeville performance of a white man in blackface and drag playing a character called Aunt Jemima. This character went on to become one of the most pervasive stereotypes of black women in the United States, embodying not only the pancakes she was appropriated to market but also post-Civil War race and gender hierarchies--including the subordination of African American women as servants and white fantasies of the nurturing mammy. Using the history of Aunt Jemima as a springboard for exploring the relationship between food and African Americans, "Black Hunger focuses on debates over soul food since the 1960s to illuminate a comple