Print version: Wallach, Jennifer Jensen, 1974- Every nation has its dish : black bodies and black food in twentieth-century America. Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, c2018 265 pages ISBN 9781469645216
Includes bibliographical references and index
Creating the foodways of uplift -- Booker T. Washington’s multifaceted program for food reform at the Tuskegee Institute -- W.E.B. du Bois, respectable child-rearing, and the representative black body -- Regionalism, social class, and elite perceptions of working-class foodways during the era of the great migration -- World War I, the Great Depression, and the changing symbolic value of black food traditions -- The civil rights movement and the ascendency of the idea of a racial style of eating -- Culinary nationalism beyond soul food.