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What Shaped Rent Parties?

More on a gastro-political read of the Autobiography of Malcolm X. In returning to Malcolm’s Harlem rent party scene, when and why did food and alcohol centered rent parties become popular as a tenant gastro-political strategy to avoid evictions? Why did rent party menus feature dishes made from inexpensive cuts of pork and moonshine instead of say beer?

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Gastro-politics and Rent Parties