Cooking Up Hashtag Activism: #PaulasBestDishes and Counternarratives of Southern Food

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Notes

[1] Roxane Gay, “Paula Deen's Racism Isn't Shocking at All,” Salon.com June 20, 2013, http://www.salon.com/2013/06/20/paula_deens_racism_isnt_shocking_at_all/

[2] “Document: Paula Deen's Testimony,” CNN.com accessed February 10, 2014, http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2013/06/entertainment/deen-deposition/index.html

[3] Daniel Gross, “Racism Is a Tough Sell: The Real Reason Everyone Dumped Paula Deen,” The Daily Beast, June 28, 2013, http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/06/28/racism-is-a-tough-sell-the-real-reason-everyone-dumped-paula-deen.html

[4] Twitter is a social media website that allows individuals to create topic-based “hashtags” signified by a preceding # and circulate messages of 140 characters or less, called “tweets.”

[5] The term “postracial” suggests that the nation has moved beyond race, into an era in which racial categories are no longer meaningful markers of inequality. Ralina Joseph, “‘Tyra Banks Is Fat’: Reading (Post-) Racism and (Post-) Feminism in the New Millennium,” Critical Studies in Media Communication 26, issue 3 (August 2009): 237–54.

[6] Sanjay Sharma, “Black Twitter?: Racial Hashtags, Networks and Contagion,” New Formations: A Journal of Culture/theory/politics 78, issue 1 (2013): 48.

[7] Sanjay Sharma, “Black Twitter?: Racial Hashtags, Networks and Contagion,” New Formations: A Journal of Culture/theory/politics 78, issue 1 (2013): 48.

[8] Sarah Florini, “Tweets, Tweeps, and Signifyin’: Communication and Cultural Performance on ‘Black Twitter’,” Television & New Media 15, issue 3 (March 2014): 223–37.

[9] Caitlin Dewey, “#Bringbackourgirls, #Kony2012, and the Complete, Divisive History of ‘Hashtag Activism’,” Washington Post, May 8, 2014, http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2014/05/08/bringbackourgirls-kony2012-and-the-complete-divisive-history-of-hashtag-activism/

[10] Anne Bower, “Introduction: Watching Soul Food,” in African American Foodways: Explorations of History and Culture, ed. Anne Bower (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2007), 2.

[11] Anne Bower, “Introduction: Watching Soul Food,” in African American Foodways: Explorations of History and Culture, ed. Anne Bower (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2007), 2.

[12] Anthony Szczesiul, “Re-Mapping Southern Hospitality: Discourse, Ethics, Politics,” European Journal of American Culture 26, issue 2 (June 2007): 128.

[13] Ariane Cruz, “Gettin’ ‘Down Home With the Neelys’: Gastro-Porn and Televisual Performances of Gender, Race, and Sexuality,” Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory 23, issue 3 (2013): 323–49.

[14] Carol M. Megehee and Deborah F. Spake, “Decoding Southern Culture and Hospitality,” International Journal of Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research 2, issue 2 (2008): 97–101.

[15] Szczesiul, “Re-Mapping Southern Hospitality.”

[16] Henry Louis Gates, Jr., The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1989), 51.

[17] Florini, “Tweets, Tweeps, and Signifyin’.”

[18] Christine Harold, OurSpace: Resisting the Corporate Control of Culture (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2007), 7.

[19] Christine Harold, OurSpace: Resisting the Corporate Control of Culture (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2007), 5.

[20] Michael Warner, “Publics and Counterpublics (Abbreviated Version),” Quarterly Journal of Speech 88, issue 4 (November 2002): 421.

[21] Sarah Sharma, “Critical Time,” Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 10, issue 2–3 (2013): 314.