In Franchise-winner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in history-acclaimed historian Marcia Chatelain investigates the complex interrelationship between Black communities and America’s largest, most popular fast food chain. From the first McDonald’s drive-in in San Bernardino to the franchise on Florissant Avenue in Ferguson, Missouri during the summer of 2014, Chatelain shows how fast food is a source of both power-economic and political-and despair for African Americans. Through her innovative research and compelling storytelling, Chatelain shows how fast food is, more than ever before, a key battlefield in the fight for racial justice.
Biography:
Marcia Chatelain is the Penn Presidential Compact Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Her newest book, Franchise, won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in History, the Hagley Prize in Business History, the Organization of American Historians Lawrence W. Levine Award, the Hurston Wright Legacy Award, the Hooks Institute National Book Award, the Alfred and Fay Chandler Book Award and the James Beard Foundation Award for Writing. She has received awards and honors from the Ford Foundation, the American Association of University Women, and the German Marshall Fund of the United States as well as several awards for her teaching and university service. Her first book, South Side Girls, recasts Chicago's Great Migration through the lens of Black girls.
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