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Burgers in blackface : anti-Black restaurants then and now
- Title
- Burgers in blackface : anti-Black restaurants then and now / Naa Oyo A. Kwate.
- Author
- Kwate, Naa Oyo A.
- Publication
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2019.
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Details
- Description
- 87 pages : illustrations; 18 cm.
- Summary
- "Aunt Jemima is the face of pancake mix. Uncle Ben sells rice. Chef Rastus shills for Cream of Wheat. Stereotyped Black faces and bodies have long promoted retail food products that are household names. Much less visible to the public are the numerous restaurants that deploy unapologetically racist logos, themes, and architecture. These marketing concepts, which center nostalgia for a racist past and commemoration of our racist present, reveal the deeply entrenched American investment in anti-Blackness. Drawing on wide-ranging sources from the late 1800s to the present, Burgers in Blackface gives a powerful account, and rebuke, of historical and contemporary racism in restaurant branding"--
- Series Statement
- Forerunners: ideas first
- Uniform Title
- Forerunners (Minneapolis, Minn.)
- Alternative Title
- Anti-Black restaurants then and now
- Subjects
- Stereotypes (Social psychology)
- Restaurants
- Stereotypes (Social psychology) in advertising
- Racism
- Stereotypes (Social psychology) in mass media
- Black author
- Stereotypes (Social psychology) in mass media > History
- United States > Race relations
- Stereotypes (Social psychology) > United States > History
- Restaurants > United States > History
- History
- African Americans > Social conditions
- Stereotypes (Social psychology) in advertising > United States > History
- Racism > United States > History
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Coon Chicken Inn -- Mammy's Cupboard -- Richard's Restaurant and Slave Market -- Sambo's -- Conclusion: The spice of racism.
- Call Number
- Sc C 20-43
- ISBN
- 9781517908027
- 1517908027
- OCLC
- 1109440316
- Author
- Kwate, Naa Oyo A., author.
- Title
- Burgers in blackface : anti-Black restaurants then and now / Naa Oyo A. Kwate.
- Publisher
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2019.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Forerunners: ideas firstForerunners (Minneapolis, Minn.)
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc C 20-43