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Qualitative analysis explores adaptations of hot chicken as a cultural symbol among white middle-class in Nashville, highlighting issues of race and identity.
This paper focuses on how white middle-class Nashvillians adapt hot chicken as a local symbol and explores how ‘white trash’ hot chicken parties make it possible to use food to reclaim public space and to play with stigma in a way that is empowering for some, while simultaneously contributing to a wider culture of ‘hegemonic whiteness’.
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