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Author Talk With Historian and Pulitzer Prize Winner, Dr. Marcia Chatelain
Join us in conversation with Dr. Marcia Chatelain as she discusses her Pulitzer prize-winning book, Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America. This is a virtual event and registration is required.
Dr. Marcia Chatelain set out to answer the question of how fast-food restaurants so thoroughly saturate black neighborhoods. McDonald’s has often been blamed for the rising rates of obesity and diabetes among black Americans. In Franchise, 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.
- Date:
- Wednesday, August 3, 2022
- Time:
- 11:00am - 12:00pm
- Branch:
- Digital Library
- Categories:
- Books & Reading
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