White burgers, Black cash : fast food from Black exclusion to exploitation

Summary: "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"--

Record details

ISBN: 9781517911102
ISBN: 9781517911096
ISBN: 9781452968780
ISBN: 9781452968773
ISBN: 1452968780
ISBN: 1452968772
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xix, 450 pages) : illustrations, maps
remote
Computer data.
Publisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2023]

Content descriptions

General Note:	CatMonthString:may.23 Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction : how did fast food become Black? -- A fortress of whiteness : first-generation fast food in the early twentieth century -- Inharmonious food groups : Burger Chateaux, Chicken Shacks, and urban renewal's attack on the existential threat of Blackness -- Suburbs and sundown towns : the rise of second-generation fast food -- Freedom from panic : American myth and the untenability of Black space -- Delinquents, disorder, and death : racial violence and fast food's growing disrepute at midcentury -- How does it feel to be a problem? (Mis)managing racial change and the advent of Black operators -- To banish, boycott, or bash? Moderates and militants clash in Cleveland -- Government burgers : federal financing of fast food in the ghetto -- You've got to be in : Black franchisors and Black economic power -- Blaxploitation : fast food stokes a new urban logic -- Push and pull : Black advertising and racial covenants fuel fast food growth -- Ghetto wars : fast food tussles for profits amid sufferation -- Criminal chicken : perceptions of deviant Black consumption -- 365 Black : a racial transformation complete -- Conclusion : the racial costs.
Type of Computer File or Data Note:	Text (HTML), electronic book.
System Details Note:	Mode of access: Internet.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:	Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. Access restricted by subscription.
Issuing Body Note:	Made available online by JSTOR.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 27, 2023).