ABSTRACT

This article examines the ways that African American interviewees remembered and recounted the foodways under slavery. It explores the significance of these memories, and shows that their telling was deliberately structured to act as a pedagogical message to younger members of the black community, thus crafting a place for themselves as holders of historical memory. Though problematic and requiring sensitive reading, the WPA narratives of six states provide a rich source material for understanding the epistemological power of the remembrance of places of food consumption in black culture under slavery and beyond. Deliberate silences within the narratives reflect the necessity for the interviewees to protect themselves and their families in the still hostile atmosphere of the South of the 1930s.

摘要

本文考察了非裔美国人的受访者如何记住和讲述奴隶制下的饮食方式。它探讨了这些记忆的重要性，并表明他们的讲述是有意为黑人社区的年轻成员提供教育信息的，从而为自己作为历史记忆的持有者打造了一个地方。尽管存在问题且需要敏感阅读，但六个州的 WPA 叙述为理解奴隶制及其他黑人文化中食物消费场所记忆的认识论力量提供了丰富的源材料。叙述中刻意的沉默反映了受访者在 1930 年代南部仍然充满敌意的气氛中保护自己和家人的必要性。