To Live and Dine in Dixie: The Evolution of Urban Food Culture in the Jim Crow South (Southern Foodways Alliance Studies in Culture, People, and Place Ser.) PDF Book

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This book explores the changing food culture of the urban American South during the Jim Crow era by examining how race, ethnicity, class, and gender contributed to the development and maintenance of racial segregation in public eating places. Focusing primarily on the 1900s to the 1960s, Angela Jill Cooley identifies the cultural differences between activists who saw public eating places like urban lunch counters as sites of political participation and believed access to such spaces a right of citizenship, and white supremacists who interpreted desegregation as a challenge to property rights and advocated local control over racial issues.

Significant legal changes occurred across this period as the federal government sided at first with the white supremacists but later supported the unprecedented progress of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which―among other things―required desegregation of the nation’s restaurants. Because the culture of white supremacy that contributed to racial segregation in public accommodations began in the white southern home, Cooley also explores domestic eating practices in nascent southern cities and reveals how the most private of activities―cooking and dining― became a cause for public concern from the meeting rooms of local women’s clubs to the halls of the U.S. Congress.

Book ID Asin: 0820347590
Book Title: To Live and Dine in Dixie: The Evolution of Urban Food Culture in the Jim Crow South (Southern Foodways Alliance Studies in Culture, People, and Place Ser.)
Book Author: Angela Jill Cooley
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of Georgia Press (May 15, 2015)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0820347590
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0820347592
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.2 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.51 x 9 inches

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To Live and Dine in Dixie is an important addition to the canon of southern history and food studies. -- Marcie Cohen Ferris ― author of The Edible South: The Power of Food and the Making of an American Region

I cannot overstate how useful it is that Cooley is trained both as a cultural historian and as a lawyer. The richness of analysis in To Live and Dine in Dixie comes from the interplay of methodologies from both fields. Few other scholars can bring such research tools to the subject. -- Elizabeth Engelhardt ― author of A Mess of Greens: Southern Gender and Southern Food

How does Angela Jill Cooley cover so much ground, and so well, in under 200 pages? To Live and Dine in Dixie is thoughtful and concise, and it adds meaningfully to the growing canon of incisive writing on Southern foodways. Like her contemporaries in the field, Cooley expertly utilizes foodways to deliver a trenchant critique of the Jim Crow South. -- Catarina Passidomo ― Southern Register

The book would be useful in a wide range of courses beyond food history, including urban history, the history of the South, African American history, and business history courses. In a food studies course it would offer an excellent point of departure for discussions and research projects about local dining laws, the relationship of restaurant décor and enforcement of racial agendas, and many other topics that will enrich the food studies library. -- Megan Elias ― H-Net Reviews

While this book could easily be considered as a focus on civil rights issues over food, it uses urban food places and gathering to explain how cooking and dining translate to public issues. As a culinary history, per se, it’s something quite different, and is a recommendation for not just food history readers, but any involved in civil rights history and issues. ― Midwest Book Review

“To Live and Dine in Dixie packs a considerable punch with its connection of modern Southern dining attitudes to their Jim Crow predecessors, substantiated by wide-ranging research and refreshingly informed by Cooley’s expertise on legal matters. It’s an eye-opening read for anybody, but those who either live or were raised in the “post-racial” South might find it an especially educational experience. . .” -- Wendell McKay ― Repast

Angela Jill Cooley’s compelling history argues that public eateries were a flashpoint in the urban Jim Crow South because they endangered the region’s racial hierarchy. By attending to de facto and de jure segregation as a “careful performance of race-specific roles” designed to support white supremacy and by amply demonstrating food culture as its main stage, Cooley richly complicates understanding of the evolving New South city. -- Ann Folino White ― Journal of American History

Book Description

How cultural notions contributed to the racial segregation of cafés and restaurants in the American South

Book Review

Name: Justin B.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Good price
Date: Reviewed in the United States on February 6, 2020
Review: Good price

Name: MAW
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Excellent Book!
Date: Reviewed in the United States on June 7, 2016
Review: Dr. Cooley is amazing. Her research is excellent and since I have been an educator in history for over 40 years, I have never read a more appropriate and factually correct book. Excellent!

Name: Anna
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: She's an incredibly smart and thorough individual
Date: Reviewed in the United States on August 15, 2015
Review: Professor Cooley was a teacher of mine. She's an incredibly smart and thorough individual. It was a pleasure to have learned from her and her work.

Name: kathey moore
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Highly recommend
Date: Reviewed in the United States on April 22, 2016
Review: Love this book, fascinating history.I'm sure you will discover things you never knew before.

Name: Richard Roy
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Four Stars
Date: Reviewed in the United States on March 14, 2016
Review: great item highly suggested

Name: Jeneveve
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Review of To Live and Dine in Dixie
Date: Reviewed in the United States on October 23, 2015
Review: Angela Jill Cooley’s To Live and Dine in Dixie: The Evolution of Urban Food Culture in the Jim Crow South is an interdisciplinary examination of how culinary practices and food culture was reflective of, and affected by, the Jim Crow laws of segregation in the American South. The book is separated into three time periods: 1876-1935, 1936-1959, and 1960-1970. In each of these sections Cooley identifies the changes in Southern food culture, as well as the changes in law and society that worked to protect the South’s infamous feelings of white supremacy.
Cooley argues that food was used to uphold the hierarchy of power in the South during these periods. She uses eye witness accounts, legal documents, and others’ thorough writings of this time to support her argument. This is where Cooley’s degrees in both law and history are invaluable. Cooley ties the legal and cultural aspects of this topic together skillfully.
Cooley dives into the deeper meanings and metaphorical resonances of the events, cultural attitudes, and even the food itself. She identifies hypocrisies in this society and its culinary practices, such as “white Alabamians considered it acceptable to eat food that had been prepared by black hands but inappropriate to eat that same food sitting beside black diners” (pg. 4). She writes in an objective and academic manner that is thought-provoking and enjoyable to read.
Ultimately, what Cooley conveys in this work is that food and the racial inequalities of the region are inextricably linked because of their prominence in the area’s historical culture. And Cooley does this with insightful examination and thorough investigation of laws and food practices of the American South during these volatile times. If you are interested in the history of the American South and/or the intimate relationship food has with the Civil Rights Movement, I would recommend this book to you.

Name: Kristine Fisher
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: the sheer amount of anthropology (and bibliography) that this book offers is amazing.
Date: Reviewed in the United States on October 25, 2015
Review: To Live and Dine in Dixie by Angela Jill Cooley is a free NetGalley ebook that I began reading in April before my weekly trivia night. Food culture + regional sociology? Count me in!

I was fully engaged in this book's mix of tradition and transition between racial discrimination practices and consumer/preparer food adaptations. Coveted, protected recipes and skilled, practiced cooks were the name of the game, but its steps toward exclusivity, purity, and public policy were where it went totally wrong. Yet, again, the sheer amount of anthropology (and bibliography) that this book offers is amazing.