Rebecca Sharpless: 11 books
Fertile Ground, Narrow Choices
Women on Texas Cotton Farms, 1900-1940
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
Rural women comprised the largest part of the adult population of Texas until 1940 and in the American South until 1960. On the cotton farms of Central Texas, women's labor was essential. In addition to working untold hours in the fields, women shouldered most family responsibilities: keeping house,...
Cooking in Other Women’s Kitchens, Enhanced Ebook
Domestic Workers in the South,1865-1960
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
As African American women left the plantation economy behind, many entered domestic service in southern cities and towns. Cooking was one of the primary jobs they performed, feeding generations of white families and, in the process, profoundly shaping southern foodways and culture. In Cooking in Other...
Cooking in Other Women’s Kitchens
Domestic Workers in the South,1865-1960
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2010
As African American women left the plantation economy behind, many entered domestic service in southern cities and towns. Cooking was one of the primary jobs they performed, feeding generations of white families and, in the process, profoundly shaping southern foodways and culture. Rebecca Sharpless...
by Bryan Giemza, Rebecca Sharpless, Ted Atkinson
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2018
Much of American popular culture depicts the 1930s South either as home to a population that was intellectually, morally, and physically stunted, or as a romantic, sentimentalized haven untouched by the nation’s financial troubles. Though these images stand as polar opposites, each casts the South...
"She Ought to Have Taken Those Cakes": Southern Women and Rural Food Supplies
An article from Southern Cultures 18:2, Summer 2012: The Special Issue on Food
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
In April 1930, five hundred potential customers showed up at the opening of Staunton's curb market, and in 1936, the market's most successful vendor, Nettie Shull, made more than $2,000 by selling potato chips, fried apple pies, potato salad, and dressed poultry."
This article appears...
Dethroning the Deceitful Pork Chop
Rethinking African American Foodways from Slavery to Obama
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015
2016 Choice Outstanding Academic Title
2017 Association for the Study of Food and Society Award, best edited collection.
The fifteen essays collected in Dethroning the Deceitful Pork Chop utilize a wide variety of methodological perspectives to explore African American food expressions from...
by Mary Chamberlain, Pamela Dean, James E. Fogerty
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2006
Originally intending to produce the first comprehensive scholarly reference guide to the antecedents, practices, and theory of oral history, the editors have gone even further, creating a highly readable and useful tool for scholars, students, and the general public. Covering the vast scope of this...
by David L. Anderson, Paul K. Conkin, Cita Cook
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2005
In The Human Tradition in the New South, historian James C. Klotter brings together twelve biographical essays that explore the region's political, economic, and social development since the Civil War. Like all books in this series, these essays chronicle the lives of ordinary Americans whose lives...
History of Oral History
Foundations and Methodology
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2007
Gathered here are parts I and II of the Handbook of Oral History, which set the benchmark for knowledge of the field. The eminent contributors discuss the history and methodologies of a field that once was the domain of history scholars who were responding to trends within the academy, but which has...
African Americans in Central Texas History
From Slavery to Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2019
Bruce A. Glasrud and Deborah M. Liles have gathered over thirty years of scholarship—articles, book excerpts, and new, original essays—to offer for the first time an overview of the history of African Americans in Central Texas. From slavery and agriculture in the nineteenth century to entrepreneurship...
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...