Author : Silke Hackenesch
Release : 2017-11-09
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 765/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Chocolate and Blackness by : Silke Hackenesch
Download or read book Chocolate and Blackness written by Silke Hackenesch. This book was released on 2017-11-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book draws out a number of unexpected connections between chocolate and blackness as both idea and reality. Silke Hackenesch builds her argument around four main focal points. First is the modes of production of chocolate--the economic realities of the business and the material connection between blackness and chocolate. Second is the semantics of chocolate, while its iconography is analyzed third. Finally, she addresses the use of chocolate as a racial signifier, showing that it is deployed differently by African Americans and Afro-Germans, for example.