Beyond “Soul”: New Directions in Black American Food (w/ Dr. Psyche Williams-Forson)

My guest today is Dr. Psyche Williams-Forson, who is a professor of American Studies at the University of Maryland College Park. She studies African American foodways and culture. We had an extensive discussion about new directions in Black American food and scholarship.

In addition to speaking about new and exciting scholarship and efforts in Black American food, we also talked about her prior work: how chicken played a prominent role in Black women’s entrepreneurship as well as the inherent anti-Blackness of food shaming.

• Dr. Williams-Forson's website: psychewilliamsforson.com

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Episode Notes:

• Southern Foodways Alliance

• Dr. Psyche Williams’ Forson’s books:

  • Building Houses Out of Chicken Legs: Black Women Food and Power

  • Taking Food Public: Redefining Food Ways in a Changing World

  • Eating While Black, Food Shaming and Race in America

• Dr. Fred(erick Douglass) Opie

• Adrian Miller

• Dr. Jessica B. Harris

• Stephen Satterfield

  • High on the Hog

• Dr. Ashanté M. Reese

  • Gather: Black Food, Nourishment, and the Art of Togetherness

• Dr. Monica M. White

  • Freedom Farmers

• Dr. Priscilla McCutcheon

• Fannie Lou Hamer

• Dr. Kimberly D. Nettles-Barcelón

• B. Smith

• Michael Twitty

  • The Cooking Gene

• Feed The Malik

• KJ Kearney

  • Black Food Fridays

• The Black Food Folks

• Gastronomica

• Food, Culture, & Society

• Food & Foodways

• Gravy

• Oxford American

• Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor

• Dr. Rafia Zafar

• Toni Tipton Martin

  • Juke Joints, Jazz Clubs, & Juice: A Coktail Recipe Book

• Charla Draper

• Dr. Scott Alves Barton

• Chef Rahman “Rock” Harper

• The Family Reunion @ Salamander Resort

• Dr. Julius B. Fleming

• Dr. Deborah Willis

• Dr. Cynthia Greenlee

• Julie Dash

• Leah Penniman / Soul Fire Farm

• Dr. Constance Bailey

  • Get It While It's Hot. Gas Station, Roadside, and Convenience Cuisine in the U.S. South

• Cha McCoy

  • Wine Pairing for the People

• Dr. Naa Oyo A. Kwate

  • White Burgers, Black Cash: Fast Food from Black Exclusion to Exploitation

• Dr. Bobby J. Smith II

  • Food Power Politics: The Food Story of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement

• Dr. Jennifer Wallach

• Dr. Sowande Mustakeem

  • Slavery at Sea, Terror, Sex, and Sickness in the Middle Passage

• Toni Morrison

• Ebony Test Kitchen

• Dr. Joanne Hyppolite

• National Museum of African American History & Culture

• Carrie Mae Weems

  • Kitchen Table Series

• Luther Vandross

• Rick James & Teena Marie

  • “Fire & Desire”

• The O’Jays

• The Isley Brothers

• Earth Wind & Fire

• Evelyn “Champagne” King

• Phyllis Hyman

• The GAP Band

• Frankie Beverly / Maze

• Dorothy West

  • The Living is Easy

• Louise Meriwether

  • Daddy Was a Number Runner

• Pauline Hopkins

  • Contending Forces

• Ann Allen Shockley

  • Say Jesus and Come to Me