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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.

Table of Contents:

• Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Coon Chicken Inn; Mammy's Cupboard; Richard's Restaurant and Slave Market; Sambo's; Conclusion: The Spice of Racism; Acknowledgments

Author/Creator:

Kwate, Naa Oyo A. , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Burgers in blackface: anti-black restaurants then and now [by Kwate, N.O.A.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Burgers in blackface [by Kwate, N.O.A.] (MInneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2019 — ISBN 1517908027; ISBN 9781517908027; OCLC Number 1109440316)

Related Series:

Forerunners (Minneapolis, Minn.)

Subjects:

Racism — United States — History

Restaurants — United States — History

Racism

Restaurants

United States

Genres:

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.
Description based on: Vendor-supplied metadata.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations.

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

HT1521 .K838 2019eb

ISBNs:

9781452962443 (electronic bk.)
1452962448 (electronic bk.)
9781517908027 [Invalid]
1517908027 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1109956972