Rafia Zafar
Biographic Data
| ID | 3612686 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rafia Zafar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rafia |
| FAMILY NAME | Zafar |
| SIGNATURE | ZAFAR R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
At the Table’s Edge
On December 6, 2024, Gastronomica’s Editorial Collective met at Victoria College, the University of Toronto, for our annual members meeting. As part of the program, we organized a special roundtable on commensality, a topic often engaged by journal contributors. Proposed by H. Rosi Song, the theme of commensality is as much to do with whom we eat as with whom we don’t eat. Likewise, commensality’s inclusions and exclusions do not only implicate t…
Black Food History and Public Health
On this occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of Gastronomica, it’s worth considering how food studies, relatively in its youth in the US academy fifteen years ago, offers humanistic perspectives on public health challenges. Back in 2009, I didn’t think of myself as any kind of expert in food studies, as my complete lack of professional training in nutrition and dietetics didn’t seem to me suitable for a partnership with colleagues at my, or a…
Arturo Alfonso Schomburg in the Twenty-first Century: An Introduction
Arturo Alfonso Schomburg in the Twenty-first Century:An Introduction Laura E. Helton (bio) and Rafia Zafar (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution Fig 1. Arturo Schomburg, c. 1896. (Photographs and Prints Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, NYPL Digital Collections, http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47df-8851-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99) Who was Arturo (Arthur) Alfonso Schomburg and why, as we approach the ses…
Arturo Schomburg's Gastronomica
Arturo Schomburg's never completed encyclopedia of African diasporic foods still tantalizes scholars. Drawing from his own personal experiences and published cookbooks, in the 1920s Schomburg began to assemble largely North American focused menus drawing together the foodways of the Black world. To research his compendia, Schomburg had to rely on not only his knowledge of cooks in the African diaspora but the extant records compiled by whites—a p…
Spiritual Interrogations: Culture, Gender, and Community in Early African American Women's Writing
The Insistence of the Indian: Race and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century American Culture
We Wear the Mask: African Americans Write American Literature, 1760-1870
Uncovers the strategies early African American writers used both to create an African American identity and to make their visions and stories accessible to white readers. Alongside these pioneers of black American literature Zafar juxtaposes some familiar European American Writers. Beginning with Phillis Wheatley's implicit engagements with other colonial era poets, and ending with the ultimately tragic success story of Elizabeth Keckley, ex-slav…
The Signifying Dish: Autobiography and History in Two Black Women's Cookbooks
These buffoonish characters were the fictive counterparts of legions of unknown culinary workers, African Americans whose legacy and labor shaped much of what we eat to this day.2 Yet these historical chefs continue to be overshadowed by the long-running specter of the mammy-cook.3 As folklorist Patricia Turner asks, in her analysis of the production and reproduction of “mammy” kitchen artifacts: “What price has been exacted from the real black w…
Recipes for Reading: Community Cookbooks, Stories, Histories
Journal Article Recipes for Reading: Community Cookbooks, Stories, Histories. Ed. by Anne L. Bower. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1997. xiv, 271 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 1-55849-088-4. Paper, $15.95, ISBN 1-55849-089-2.) Get access Rafîa Zafar Rafîa Zafar Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 3, December 1998, …
Harriet Jacobs and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: New Critical Essays
Harriet Jacobs, today perhaps the single-most read and studied black American woman of the nineteenth century, has not until recently enjoyed sustained, scholarly analysis. This anthology presents a far-ranging compendium of literary and cultural scholarship which will take its place as the primary resource for students and teachers of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. The contributors include both established Jacobs scholars such as Jean Fa…
God Made Man, Man the Slave: The Autobiography of George Teamoh
Journal Article God Made Man, Man Made the Slave: The Autobiography of George Teamoh. Ed. by F. N. Boney, Richard L. Hume, and Rafia Zafar. (Macon: Mercer University Press, 1992. x, 219 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-86554-368-2.) Get access Peter Rachleff Peter Rachleff Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 4, March 1994, Pages 1460–1461,…
Slave Life in Georgia: A Narrative of the Life, Sufferings, and Escape of John Brown, A Fugitive Slave
Capturing the Captivity: African Americans among the Puritans
Journal Article Capturing the Captivity: African Americans Among the Puritans Get access Rafia Zafar Rafia Zafar University of Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 17, Issue 2, June 1992, Pages 19–35, https://doi.org/10.2307/466997 Published: 01 June 1992
Recipes for Reading: Community Cookbooks, Stories, Histories
Journal Article Recipes for Reading: Community Cookbooks, Stories, Histories. Ed. by Anne L. Bower. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1997. xiv, 271 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 1-55849-088-4. Paper, $15.95, ISBN 1-55849-089-2.) Get access Rafîa Zafar Rafîa Zafar Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 3, December 1998, …
The Signifying Dish: Autobiography and History in Two Black Women's Cookbooks
These buffoonish characters were the fictive counterparts of legions of unknown culinary workers, African Americans whose legacy and labor shaped much of what we eat to this day.2 Yet these historical chefs continue to be overshadowed by the long-running specter of the mammy-cook.3 As folklorist Patricia Turner asks, in her analysis of the production and reproduction of “mammy” kitchen artifacts: “What price has been exacted from the real black w…
Slave Life in Georgia: A Narrative of the Life, Sufferings, and Escape of John Brown, A Fugitive Slave
We Wear the Mask: African Americans Write American Literature, 1760-1870
Uncovers the strategies early African American writers used both to create an African American identity and to make their visions and stories accessible to white readers. Alongside these pioneers of black American literature Zafar juxtaposes some familiar European American Writers. Beginning with Phillis Wheatley's implicit engagements with other colonial era poets, and ending with the ultimately tragic success story of Elizabeth Keckley, ex-slav…
Capturing the Captivity: African Americans among the Puritans
Journal Article Capturing the Captivity: African Americans Among the Puritans Get access Rafia Zafar Rafia Zafar University of Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 17, Issue 2, June 1992, Pages 19–35, https://doi.org/10.2307/466997 Published: 01 June 1992
Capturing the Captivity: African Americans among the Puritans
Journal Article Capturing the Captivity: African Americans Among the Puritans Get access Rafia Zafar Rafia Zafar University of Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 17, Issue 2, June 1992, Pages 19–35, https://doi.org/10.2307/466997 Published: 01 June 1992
Slave Life in Georgia: A Narrative of the Life, Sufferings, and Escape of John Brown, A Fugitive Slave
God Made Man, Man the Slave: The Autobiography of George Teamoh
Journal Article God Made Man, Man Made the Slave: The Autobiography of George Teamoh. Ed. by F. N. Boney, Richard L. Hume, and Rafia Zafar. (Macon: Mercer University Press, 1992. x, 219 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-86554-368-2.) Get access Peter Rachleff Peter Rachleff Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 4, March 1994, Pages 1460–1461,…
Harriet Jacobs and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: New Critical Essays
Harriet Jacobs, today perhaps the single-most read and studied black American woman of the nineteenth century, has not until recently enjoyed sustained, scholarly analysis. This anthology presents a far-ranging compendium of literary and cultural scholarship which will take its place as the primary resource for students and teachers of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. The contributors include both established Jacobs scholars such as Jean Fa…
Recipes for Reading: Community Cookbooks, Stories, Histories
Journal Article Recipes for Reading: Community Cookbooks, Stories, Histories. Ed. by Anne L. Bower. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1997. xiv, 271 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 1-55849-088-4. Paper, $15.95, ISBN 1-55849-089-2.) Get access Rafîa Zafar Rafîa Zafar Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 3, December 1998, …
The Insistence of the Indian: Race and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century American Culture
We Wear the Mask: African Americans Write American Literature, 1760-1870
Uncovers the strategies early African American writers used both to create an African American identity and to make their visions and stories accessible to white readers. Alongside these pioneers of black American literature Zafar juxtaposes some familiar European American Writers. Beginning with Phillis Wheatley's implicit engagements with other colonial era poets, and ending with the ultimately tragic success story of Elizabeth Keckley, ex-slav…
The Signifying Dish: Autobiography and History in Two Black Women's Cookbooks
These buffoonish characters were the fictive counterparts of legions of unknown culinary workers, African Americans whose legacy and labor shaped much of what we eat to this day.2 Yet these historical chefs continue to be overshadowed by the long-running specter of the mammy-cook.3 As folklorist Patricia Turner asks, in her analysis of the production and reproduction of “mammy” kitchen artifacts: “What price has been exacted from the real black w…
Spiritual Interrogations: Culture, Gender, and Community in Early African American Women's Writing
Arturo Alfonso Schomburg in the Twenty-first Century: An Introduction
Arturo Alfonso Schomburg in the Twenty-first Century:An Introduction Laura E. Helton (bio) and Rafia Zafar (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution Fig 1. Arturo Schomburg, c. 1896. (Photographs and Prints Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, NYPL Digital Collections, http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47df-8851-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99) Who was Arturo (Arthur) Alfonso Schomburg and why, as we approach the ses…
Arturo Schomburg's Gastronomica
Arturo Schomburg's never completed encyclopedia of African diasporic foods still tantalizes scholars. Drawing from his own personal experiences and published cookbooks, in the 1920s Schomburg began to assemble largely North American focused menus drawing together the foodways of the Black world. To research his compendia, Schomburg had to rely on not only his knowledge of cooks in the African diaspora but the extant records compiled by whites—a p…
At the Table’s Edge
On December 6, 2024, Gastronomica’s Editorial Collective met at Victoria College, the University of Toronto, for our annual members meeting. As part of the program, we organized a special roundtable on commensality, a topic often engaged by journal contributors. Proposed by H. Rosi Song, the theme of commensality is as much to do with whom we eat as with whom we don’t eat. Likewise, commensality’s inclusions and exclusions do not only implicate t…
Black Food History and Public Health
On this occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of Gastronomica, it’s worth considering how food studies, relatively in its youth in the US academy fifteen years ago, offers humanistic perspectives on public health challenges. Back in 2009, I didn’t think of myself as any kind of expert in food studies, as my complete lack of professional training in nutrition and dietetics didn’t seem to me suitable for a partnership with colleagues at my, or a…
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