White Burgers, Black Cash

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Fast Food from Black Exclusion to Exploitation

By Naa Oyo A. Kwate

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White Burgers, Black Cash explores the fraught history between fast food restaurants and African American communities. Initially designed to serve White urban and suburban customers while deliberately excluding Black spaces, fast food has evolved to be disproportionately located in and marketed to Black neighbourhoods today. Author Naa Oyo A. Kwate tracks this racial and spatial transformation from the early 1900s through the present, focusing on cities like Chicago, New York, and Washington, D.C., and major brands such as White Castle, KFC, Burger King, and McDonald’s. The book unveils the underlying inequalities woven into America’s fast food industry and its cultural narrative.
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This book is ideal for readers interested in social justice, racial history, urban studies, and the cultural significance of food industries. It suits scholars, students, and anyone seeking to understand the complex racial dimensions of American fast food culture.

"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"--

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The long and pernicious relationship between fast food restaurants and the African American community

James Beard Foundation: James Beard Media Award for Reference, History, and Scholarship - Winner

Urban Affairs Association Best Book in Urban Affairs - Winner

Association for Humanist Sociology Betty and McClung Lee Book Award - Winner

Black Caucus of the American Library Association - Honor, Nonfiction category

Museum of African American History Stone Book Award - Shortlist

Business History Conference: Hagley Prize - Finalist

Association for the Study of Food and Society: ASFS Book Award - Winner

Society for the Study of Social Problems: Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Outstanding Book Award - Winner

Foreword: INDIES - Silver winner, History category

Today, fast food is disproportionately located in Black neighborhoods and marketed to Black Americans through targeted advertising. But throughout much of the twentieth century, fast food was developed specifically for White urban and suburban customers, purposefully avoiding Black spaces. In White Burgers, Black Cash, Naa Oyo A. Kwate 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.

Fast food has historically been tied to the country's self-image as the land of opportunity and is marketed as one of life's simple pleasures, but a more insidious history lies at the industry's core. White Burgers, Black Cash investigates the complex trajectory of restaurant locations from a decided commitment to Whiteness to the disproportionate densities that characterize Black communities today. Kwate expansively charts fast food's racial and spatial transformation and centres the cities of Chicago, New York City, and Washington, D.C., in a national examination of the biggest brands of today, including White Castle, KFC, Burger King, McDonald's, and more.

Deeply researched, compellingly told, and brimming with surprising details, White Burgers, Black Cash reveals the inequalities embedded in America's popular national food tradition.

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White Burgers, Black Cash is praised as essential reading on the intersection of food politics, race, and socioeconomic divides. Christina Greer lauds Kwate’s deep narrative that reveals Black exploitation and corporate dynamics, offering a complex understanding of American fast food beyond its common cultural role.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781517911096

Publisher: University of Minnesota Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 11 April 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: University of Minnesota Press

Illustration: 80 black and white illustrations, 13 maps, and 3 tables

Audience: General / adult, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 25.0mm

Width: 178.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 1134g

Pages: 472

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Cook Books & Recipes Cooking & Food Education & Reference History & Archaeology History & Military Naa Oyo A. Kwate Non-Fiction

About the Author

Naa Oyo A. Kwate is a nonfiction writer and interdisciplinary scholar focused on African American urban life. She has previously served on the faculties of Columbia and Rutgers University.