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Skip to content Recipes for Respect: African American Meals and MeaningMenu Close Explore AcademicsDepartments & ProgramsMajors & MinorsGraduate Degrees and ProgramsStudent ResourcesGetting StartedAcademic PlanningScholarships, Fellowships & AwardsExperiential LearningGraduation & Post-Graduate AdvisingForms & PoliciesOffice of Graduate Studies in Arts & SciencesThe AmpersandAwards & NotablesCampus LifeHold That Thought podcastThe Ampersand Magazine Our EventsCommencement Performances & ShowsOur PeopleFaculty DirectoryStaff DirectoryFaculty & Staff ResourcesAwards & RecognitionCommittees & CouncilsFaculty Activity ReportingTenure & PromotionGraduate Student ResourcesOffice of Graduate Studies in Arts & SciencesDegrees and ProgramsGraduate AdmissionsArts & Sciences Strategic PlanThere are no boundaries to what you can achieve with a degree from Arts & Sciences.Apply TodayHomeAbout Arts & SciencesOur Alumni NetworkAcademic CalendarHow to giveContact Us Arts & Sciences Graduate Studies in A&S BackRecipes for Respect: African American Meals and MeaningBy Rafia ZafarAmazon Food studies, once trendy, has settled into the public arena. In the academy, scholarship on food and literary culture constitutes a growing river within literary and cultural studies, but writing on African American food and dining remains a tributary. Recipes for Respect bridges this gap, illuminating the role of foodways in African American culture as well as the contributions of Black cooks and chefs to what has been considered the mainstream.Beginning in the early nineteenth century and continuing nearly to the present day, African Americans have often been stereotyped as illiterate kitchen geniuses. Rafia Zafar addresses this error, highlighting the long history of accomplished African Americans within our culinary traditions, as well as the literary and entrepreneurial strategies for civil rights and respectability woven into the written records of dining, cooking, and serving. Whether revealed in cookbooks or fiction, memoirs or hotel-keeping manuals, agricultural extension bulletins or library collections, foodways knowledge sustained Black strategies for self-reliance and dignity, the preservation of historical memory, and civil rights and social mobility. If, to follow Mary Douglas’s dictum, food is a field of action—that is, a venue for social intimacy, exchange, or aggression—African American writing about foodways constitutes an underappreciated critique of the racialized social and intellectual spaces of the United States.Quick LinksExplore AcademicsStudent ResourcesThe AmpersandEventsOur PeopleAbout A&SContactAcademic CalendarA&S ComputingUniversity DirectoryUniversity LibrariesInside ArtSciArts & Sciences Strategic PlanEmployment OpportunitiesCopyright 2024 by:Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. LouisFollow Arts & SciencesInstagramFacebookTwitterLinkedInYouTubeLet your curiosity lead the way.Find out how to apply and get started todayApply Now1 Brookings Drive / St. Louis, MO 63130 / wustl.edu