L2S1 - Soul Food Presentation
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Inès, Fatou, Oriane, Clara, Ga-hee
Soul Food and Identities
Introduction
"Should we just settle with the idea that soul food is undesirable? Or is soul food unsung, and thus unfamiliar?"
Introduction
- Historical and political context
- Social Class
- Poor image of soul food and its reappropriation
- Community and religion
- Identity and queerness
Cooking techniques in West Africa continued in North America with enslaved Africans and their descendants.
Enslaved women cooking in a farm kitchen during the civil war era.
Cooking at stove in old Trepagnier Plantation House, Norco, Louisiana, October 1938
Historic-Political
Plantation kitchen where slaves used to cook.
Cooking techniques in West Africa continued in North America with enslaved Africans and their descendants.
Historic-Political
Black restaurants that fed Civil Rights Movement
Dooky Chases Restaurant - New Orleans
Brenda's Bar-B-Que Pit - Montgomery, Alabama
Historic-Political
The front line of demonstrators during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Washington D.C., August 28, 1963.
Social class
During slavery times, white plantation owners left the labor-intensive work of preparing and barbecuing food to their slaves. The barbecue tradition stayed in the American culture. Barbecue Picnic, 1886
Social class
Bad image-Reappropriation
The Black Church : African American churches
Community-Religion
Written by the Mattachine Society–an early organization dedicated to fighting for gay rights, after the Stonewall Riots, NYC, 1969
Erasing an undesirable group - homosexual prisoners at the concentration camp at Sachsenhausen, Germany, wearing pink triangles on their uniforms. 1938
Identity-Queerness-Community
- Is Soul food only an "internal toxic cultural asset"?
- How does J. Baldwin's novel redefines it?
- How does soul food role change in Arthur's life?
Identity-Queerness-Community
Written by the Mattachine Society–an early organization dedicated to fighting for gay rights, after the Stonewall Riots, NYC, 1969
Erasing an undesirable group - homosexual prisoners at the concentration camp at Sachsenhausen, Germany, wearing pink triangles on their uniforms. 1938
Identity-Queerness-Community
- Arthur's religious faith
- Soul food creates a moment of tension for him.
- It embodies his parents' religious beliefs
Identity-Queerness-Community
- Arthur's sexual identity
- Soul food is desirable, nurishing and creative.
- It is a symbol of affection and emancipation.
Extract 2
Extract 1
Conclusion
- Does the gentrification of marginalized food denatures its essence or could it, on a broader scale, contribute to its global diffusion and acceptation?
- In the current context of global warming and food crisis, could soul food, born out of struggle and survival have any lesson to teach our world?
- How could current ethical and nutritional shifts such as veganism or meat and dairy reduction influence the evolution of soul food?
Thank you!
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