| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.4

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Book Review

Building Houses Out of Chicken Legs: Black Women, Food, and Power. By Psyche A. Williams- Forson. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. xiv, 317 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 978-0-8078-3022-2. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-5686-4.)

When Psyche A. Williams-Forson began to research Building Houses Out of Chicken Legs, she wanted to look at how chickens have played into "racist and stereotypical associations" with African Americans (p. 220). She has done that, but perhaps more importantly, her final result is also a declaration of African American women's need for "self-definition, self-actualization, and self-discovery" (ibid.). Building Houses Out of Chicken Legs is not just about chickens and not just about black women; it is a broad cultural study that uses the stereotyped relationships of African Americans with chickens as a point of departure.

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