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Index
Abernathy, Ralph David
Abyssinian Baptist Church (Harlem)
African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem
African Heritage Cookbook, The (Mendes)
“African Negritude—Black American Soul” (Jeanpierre)
Africa Today
Agassiz, Elizabeth
Agassiz, Louis
agie el dulce (chili con carne)
agricultural experiment stations
Akan people
Alabama State College
Ali, Muhammad
Allen, William
American Dietitian Association
Amerindians
Amy Ruth’s (Harlem)
Angelou, Maya
Angola
Arawak people
arbis
Archibald-Good, Victoria
Arkansas
Armstrong, Louis
La Arriba (Tarrytown)
artisans
ashes, for cooking
Asian food
Atlanta, Georgia
Atlanta Journal
Atlanta University
Atlanta University Center (AUC)
Atlantic foodways
Atlantic slave trade; slave provisions on ships
Ball, Charles
bananas
Banks, Nettie C.
Baraka, Amiri
Barbados
barbecue
Bar Harbor (Ossining)
Barksdale, Marcellas C. D.
Barnett, Ella
Barrio, Renaldo
Barry’s Grill (Greensboro)
bars; Caribbean influence
bartering
Bath, Broom, and Bible
Batista y Zaldívar, Fulgencio
beans; bean pie; black-eyed peas (cowpeas); Dab-a-Dab; gongo beans (pigeon peas)
Belton, Frank
Ben Ammi, Rabbi
Ben’s Chili Bowl (District of Columbia)
Bi
afra region (Nigeria)
Birdland
Birth of a Nation, The
black arts movement
Black Collegian
black-eyed peas (cowpeas)
Black Family Dinner Quilt Cookbook, The
black nationalism
Black Panther Party
Black Panther Party for Self-Defense
black power movement
Blassingame, John W.
Bloomberg, Michael
bodegas
Bodegas (Tarrytown)
Body and Soul program (National Cancer Institute)
boll weevil
bonavist
Bond, Julian
Bon Goo Barbecue (Harlem)
bonne-bouche
Boswell, Christopher
Bowman, Liz
Bowser, Pearl
boxers
box lunches
brabacots
Bradshaw, Rudolph
Braithwaite, Kwame
Brazil
breads; cassava “bammy,”; corn bread; cornmeal; crackling bread; hoecakes; Kangues; made with corn and sweet potatoes; ponap; pone bread; spoon bread; technology for baking; West African cookery; yam foo foo; ‘yam foo foo
breakfast
Bremer, Fredrika
brilliant generation
British foodways
Brooks, Wendell
Brown, H. Rap
Brown, James
Brown, William Wells
Brown v. Board of Education
Bryant’s Place (Memphis)
Building Houses out of Chicken Legs: Black Women, Food, and Power (Williams-Forson)
bunkhouses
Burgess, Mary Keyes
Burkett, Henry “the Black King,”
Byrd, William
café pico
calabash
California, northern
Callahan, Ed
canned food
canning
Canot, Theodore
Capone, Al
Cardwell, Barbara Ann
Caribbean; African foodways in; African-influenced cuisines; Arawak people; slave rations
Caribbean immigrants: interethnic relationships with African Americans; migration, first wave; migration, 1930s and 1940s; migration, 1950s and 1960s; shared characteristics of second wave immigrants; youth culture and influence on African Americans
El Caribe (Harlem)
Carmichael, Stokely (Kwame Ture)