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Getting What We Need Ourselves should be required reading for all students of American foodways-and for that matter, anyone interested in the complex set of behaviors we call `American cuisine.' Within these pages, Jen Wallach exquisitely crafts an important-and readable---overview of one of the most important, and little recognized, voices in the American food landscape-that of African Americans-and in doing so, carefully notes the many scholars and writers who have painstakingly contributed to this history. This is a rich, moving, poignant, and timely history of our nation via the expressive power of food in and beyond the African American experience. -- Marcie Cohen Ferris, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Jennifer Jensen Wallach is associate professor of history at the University of North Texas. She is the author, most recently, of How America Eats: A Social History of U.S. Food and Culture and Richard Wright: From Black Boy to World Citizen. She is also the editor of the University of Arkansas Press’ Food and Foodways series.

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