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Dennis adds that there are different black identities, and she challenges institutions to think critically and beyond the "lazy Kentucky Fried Chicken cornbread thing. If you're keen to recognize Black History Month in some sort of fashion, there are ways to go about it without being racially insensitive.

Dennis added that there are other ways of supporting the black community without serving up a meal of fried chicken and cornbread.

Have events catered by black caterers and chefs and support black-owned businesses like food trucks and food festivals. Facebook Twitter Email. The trope painted a picture of a domestic worker who had undying loyalty to their slaveholders, as caregivers and counsel. This image ultimately sought to legitimize the institution of slavery. The Mammy stereotype gained increased popularity after the Civil War and into the s. During this time her robust, grinning likeness was attached to mass-produced consumer goods from flour to motor oil.

Considered a trusted figure in white imaginations, mammies represented contentment and served as nostalgia for whites concerned about racial equality. In the company hired real-life cook Nancy Green to portray the character at various state and world fairs.

The stereotype of the overweight, self-sacrificing and dependent mammy figure would also grow alongside the American film industry through works including "Birth of a Nation" , "Imitation of Life" and "Gone with the Wind" The stereotype of Uncle Tom is innately submissive, obedient and in constant desire of white approval.

With them, they brought codes of conduct expected in hostile Jim Crow environments. George Alexander McGuire in The Sapphire caricature, from the s through the mids, popularly portrayed black women as sassy, emasculating and domineering.

Unlike the Mammy figure, this trope depicted African American women as aggressive, loud, and angry - in direct violation of social norms. During the Jim Crow period, when blacks were often beaten, jailed, or killed for arguing with whites, these fictional characters would pretend-chastise whites, including men.

Their sassiness was supposed to indicate their acceptance as members of the white family, and acceptance of that sassiness implied that slavery and segregation were not overly oppressive. The common explanation is that "soul food" is a term that comes from the s with the black power movement, but it was floating around in the English language long before that. It had a religious connotation for centuries. It was anything that would eddify your spiritual life, so listening to a sermon, reading scriptures, all of that stuff was considered soul food.

Then it was really in the s that you started to see it have a cultural spin. That's really due to the jazz musicians who wanted to take their music to a place where they thought a white artist couldn't mimic it: the sounds of the rural church in the American South.

Those sounds, that gospel sound, was called funky and soul in its earlier iterations. Soul was the one that caught on. We could easily be calling this cuisine funky food, but that's not very appetizing. LRK : That's true.

But it did become much more of a term when it was used during the black power movement in the 60s and then into the 70s. The interesting thing is that Southern and soul were pretty synonymous for a long time in the shared cuisine.

Then in the 60s, you had some activists say, "No, no, no. There's really a separation here. That was news to white Southerners. That's when you see a split between soul and Southern. Soul gets associated with African-Americans while Southern is associated with whites even though there's a lot of overlap.

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