"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"--
"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"--
Naa Oyo A. Kwate is associate professor of Africana studies and human ecology at Rutgers. She is author of Burgers in Blackface: Anti-Black Restaurants Then and Now (Minnesota, 2019) and editor of The Street: A Photographic Field Guide to American Inequality.
Inhaltsangabe
Contents Introduction: How Did Fast Food Become Black? Part I. White Utopias 1. A Fortress of Whiteness: First-Generation Fast Food in the Early Twentieth Century 2. Inharmonious Food Groups: Burger Chateaux, Chicken Shacks, and Urban Renewal’s Attack on the Existential Threat of Blackness 3. Suburbs and Sundown Towns: The Rise of Second-Generation Fast Food 4. Freedom from Panic: American Myth and the Untenability of Black Space 5. Delinquents, Disorder, and Death: Racial Violence and Fast Food’s Growing Disrepute at Midcentury Part II. Racial Turnover 6. How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? (Mis)Managing Racial Change and the Advent of Black Operators 7. To Banish, Boycott, or Bash? Moderates and Militants Clash in Cleveland 8. Government Burgers: Federal Financing of Fast Food in the Ghetto 9. You’ve Got to Be In: Black Franchisors and Black Economic Power Part III. Black Catastrophe 10. Blaxploitation: Fast Food Stokes a New Urban Logic 11. PUSH and Pull: Black Advertising and Racial Covenants Fuel Fast Food Growth 12. Ghetto Wars: Fast Food Tussles for Profits amid Sufferation 13. Criminal Chicken: Perceptions of Deviant Black Consumption 14. 365 Black: A Racial Transformation Complete Conclusion: The Racial Costs Acknowledgments Notes Index
Contents Introduction: How Did Fast Food Become Black? Part I. White Utopias 1. A Fortress of Whiteness: First-Generation Fast Food in the Early Twentieth Century 2. Inharmonious Food Groups: Burger Chateaux, Chicken Shacks, and Urban Renewal’s Attack on the Existential Threat of Blackness 3. Suburbs and Sundown Towns: The Rise of Second-Generation Fast Food 4. Freedom from Panic: American Myth and the Untenability of Black Space 5. Delinquents, Disorder, and Death: Racial Violence and Fast Food’s Growing Disrepute at Midcentury Part II. Racial Turnover 6. How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? (Mis)Managing Racial Change and the Advent of Black Operators 7. To Banish, Boycott, or Bash? Moderates and Militants Clash in Cleveland 8. Government Burgers: Federal Financing of Fast Food in the Ghetto 9. You’ve Got to Be In: Black Franchisors and Black Economic Power Part III. Black Catastrophe 10. Blaxploitation: Fast Food Stokes a New Urban Logic 11. PUSH and Pull: Black Advertising and Racial Covenants Fuel Fast Food Growth 12. Ghetto Wars: Fast Food Tussles for Profits amid Sufferation 13. Criminal Chicken: Perceptions of Deviant Black Consumption 14. 365 Black: A Racial Transformation Complete Conclusion: The Racial Costs Acknowledgments Notes Index
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