Marcie Ferris: 4 books
The Larder
Food Studies Methods from the American South
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
The sixteen essays in The Larder argue that the study of food does not simply help us understand more about what we eat and the foodways we embrace. The methods and strategies herein help scholars use food and foodways as lenses to examine human experience. The resulting conversations provoke a deeper...
The Edible South
The Power of Food and the Making of an American Region
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014
In The Edible South, Marcie Cohen Ferris presents food as a new way to chronicle the American South's larger history. Ferris tells a richly illustrated story of southern food and the struggles of whites, blacks, Native Americans, and other people of the region to control the nourishment of their bodies...
"The Deepest Reality of Life": Southern Sociology, the WPA, and Food in the New South
An article from Southern Cultures 18:2, Summer 2012: The Special Issue on Food
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
'I know your damned photographer's soul writhes, but to hell with it. Do you think I give a damn about a photographer's soul with Hitler at our doorstep?'"
This article appears in the Summer 2012 issue of Southern Cultures. The full issue is also available as an ebook.
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"God First, You Second, Me Third": An Exploration of "Quiet Jewishness" at Camp Wah-Kon-Dah
An article from Southern Cultures 18:1, Spring 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
This was an anxious time for American Jews, stung by the anti-Semitic quotas and discrimination of the interwar years and the growing horror regarding the fate of European Jewry as the Holocaust came to light in the 1940s."
This article appears in the Spring 2012 issue of Southern Cultures....