White burgers, Black cash : fast food from Black exclusion to exploitation / Naa Oyo A. Kwate.

"White Burgers, Black Cash traces the evolution in fast food from the early 1900s to the present, from its long history of racist exclusion to its current damaging embrace of urban Black communities. Deeply researched, compellingly told, and brimming with surprising details, this book reveals t...

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Main Author: Kwate, Naa Oyo A. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2023]
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264 1 |a Minneapolis :  |b University of Minnesota Press,  |c [2023] 
300 |a 1 online resource (xix, 450 pages) :  |b illustrations, maps 
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a Introduction : how did fast food become Black? -- A fortress of whiteness : first-generation fast food in the early twentieth century -- Inharmonious food groups : Burger Chateaux, Chicken Shacks, and urban renewal's attack on the existential threat of Blackness -- Suburbs and sundown towns : the rise of second-generation fast food -- Freedom from panic : American myth and the untenability of Black space -- Delinquents, disorder, and death : racial violence and fast food's growing disrepute at midcentury -- How does it feel to be a problem? (Mis)managing racial change and the advent of Black operators -- To banish, boycott, or bash? Moderates and militants clash in Cleveland -- Government burgers : federal financing of fast food in the ghetto -- You've got to be in : Black franchisors and Black economic power -- Blaxploitation : fast food stokes a new urban logic -- Push and pull : Black advertising and racial covenants fuel fast food growth -- Ghetto wars : fast food tussles for profits amid sufferation -- Criminal chicken : perceptions of deviant Black consumption -- 365 Black : a racial transformation complete -- Conclusion : the racial costs. 
520 |a "White Burgers, Black Cash traces the evolution in fast food from the early 1900s to the present, from its long history of racist exclusion to its current damaging embrace of urban Black communities. Deeply researched, compellingly told, and brimming with surprising details, this book reveals the inequalities embedded in America's popular national food tradition"--  |c Provided by publisher. 
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