Building houses out of chicken legs: Black women, food, and power

I: Encounters with the bird --

We called ourselves waiter carriers --

"Who dat say chicken in dis crowd" : Black men, visual imagery, and the ideology of fear --

Gnawing on a chicken bone in my own house : cultural contestation, Black women's work, and class --

Traveling the chicken bone express --

Say Jesus and come to me : signifying and church food --

II: African women and gender malpractice --

Taking the big piece of chicken --

Still dying for some soul food? --

Flying the coop with Kara Walker --

Epilogue : from train depots to country buffets.