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Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America

Marcia Chatelain

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Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America

Franchise won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in History and the 2022 James Beard Foundation Book Award [Writing]. The untold history of how fast food became one of the greatest generators of black wealth in America. Just as The Color of Law provided a vital understanding of redlining and racial segregation, Marcia Chatelain's Franchise investigates the complex interrelationship between black communities and America's largest, most popular fast food chain. Taking us from the first McDonald's drive-in in San Bernardino to the franchise on Florissant Avenue in Ferguson, Missouri, in the summer of 2014, Chatelain shows how fast food is a source of both power—economic and political—and despair for African Americans. As she contends, fast food is, more than ever before, a key battlefield in the fight for racial justice.

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Publisher
National Geographic Books
Year
2021
ISBN-13
9781631498701
Genre
History
Topics
Black economic empowermentFast food industryRacial segregation and civil rights

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