It is in African American churches where the oppressed have taken an active role in the social process of cultural identification. True or False?
True
What evidence does Phillip Morgan point to regarding the control of the poultry trade by slaves in the latter part of the century?
Travelers' accounts
In which ways did black women use their earned profit from church lunch and dinner sales to contribute to the church?
Assist in building baptismal pools, edifices, sanctuaries, and other church needs
Black women (and men) “light up more stoves” and “grease more frying pans” in an attempt to feed congregations while asserting and maintaining their heritage and culture through the tradition of selling (BLANK) dinners
Fried chicken
What are the four “C’s that can bring a preacher down?
Cash, chicks, cadillacs, and chicken
According to ex-slave Charles Grandy, what was the motivating factor of stealing chickens?
Hunger, enslaved people used trap doors to hide chickens
Historically and in contemporary society, what meaning does cooking in the church offer to African American women?
An opportunity to provide sustenance and a time for networking “in the name of the Lord”
What is chicken called in Black churches?
“Gospel bird” or “preacher’s bird”
Who was not given credit when Marjorie Rawlings wrote Cross Creek Cookery?
Idella Parker
Women were often denied the status and power afforded men. However, according to Doris Witt, the kitchen gave black women a (BLANK)
Level of “cultural authority” and “financial autonomy”
In the latter part of the 19th century, churches relied upon the leadership of black women in varying roles. What were the roles?
Sunday school teacher and kitchen cook
According to the survey that was conducted, what foods do Black people in corporate settings refuse to eat in front of white co-workers?
Chicken and watermelon
What does Pamela Qyaggiotto believe a mother determines?
"The mother determines when, what, and how much family members will eat ....She controls the symbolic language of food, determining what her dishes and meals will say about herself, her family, and world,"
This concept was operated out of the context of W.E.B Dubois’s “double consciousness” that blurred the lines between black women as “homemakers and soldiers”, what is it called?
Double gender consciousness
When Black women congregate in church kitchens, cooking, networking, and “strifing”, they are building upon an integral part of the Black communities’ (BLANK)
Cultural identity
For many, fried chicken is often called the Southern culinary culture. However, according to Psyche William-Forson, what does fried chicken mean to many African Americans?
A symbolic symbolic icon of African Americans’ struggle and survival
Why does Psyche William-Forson believe it is important for younger generations to understand the traditions and legacies?
To arm themselves with the knowledge of how negative controlling images creep into their psyches and slowly eat away at their self-esteem and cultural identity as Black people.
By utilizing and identifying symbols commonly affiliated with our cultural heritage, we engage in the process of self-definition or give rights to the wider American culture to dictate what represents our expressive culture and thereby represent us as Black people. True or False?
False
By utilizing and identifying symbols commonly affiliated with our cultural heritage, we engage in the process of self-definition or REFUSING TO ALLOW the wider American culture to dictate what represents our expressive culture and thereby represent us as Black people
Patricia Hill Collins suggests the critical need for black women to be aware of the importance of self-definition, not self-valuation in historical and contemporary statements of Black feminist thought. True or False?
False
Black women need to be aware of the importance of BOTH self-definition and self-valuation
Why was the phrase “chicken bone express” created?
White food establishments were inhospitable to Blacks. As the folklore goes, you could identify the travel route of Black folks by following the trail of chicken Bones along the highway or the railroad track