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049 _aNFGA
100 1 _aChatelain, Marcia,
_d1979-
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aFranchise :
_bthe golden arches in Black America /
_cMarcia Chatelain.
250 _aFirst edition.
264 1 _aNew York, NY :
_bLiveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company,
_c[2020]
300 _a324 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c25 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
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_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
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504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction: from sit-in to drive-thru -- Fast food civil rights -- Burgers in the age of black capitalism -- The burger boycott and the ballot box -- Bending the golden arches -- Black America, brought to you by... -- A fair share of the pie -- The miracle of the golden arches -- Conclusion: bigger than a hamburger.
520 _a"From civil rights to Ferguson, Franchise reveals the untold history of how fast food became one of the greatest generators of black wealth in America. Often blamed for the rising rates of obesity and diabetes among black Americans, fast food restaurants like McDonald's have long symbolized capitalism's villainous effects on our nation's most vulnerable communities. But how did fast food restaurants so thoroughly saturate black neighborhoods in the first place? In Franchise, acclaimed historian Marcia Chatelain uncovers a surprising history of cooperation among fast food companies, black capitalists, and civil rights leaders, who -- in the troubled years after King's assassination -- believed they found an economic answer to the problem of racial inequality. With the discourse of social welfare all but evaporated, federal programs under presidents Johnson and Nixon promoted a new vision for racial justice: that the franchising of fast food restaurants, by black citizens in their own neighborhoods, could finally improve the quality of black life. Synthesizing years of research, Franchise tells a troubling success story of an industry that blossomed the very moment a freedom movement began to whither"--
_cProvided by publisher.
610 2 0 _aMcDonald's Corporation.
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650 0 _aFast food restaurants
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aFranchises (Retail trade)
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aBusiness enterprises
_xPurchasing
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650 0 _aAfrican Americans
_xCivil rights.
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650 0 _aRace discrimination
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650 0 _aAfrican Americans
_xEconomic conditions.
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