| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations. |
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data file rda |
| Series |
Forerunners: Ideas first |
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Forerunners (Minneapolis, Minn.)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Note |
Vendor-supplied metadata. |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Racism -- United States -- History.
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Restaurants -- United States -- History.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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Racism. (OCoLC)fst01086616
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Restaurants. (OCoLC)fst01095907
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kwate, Naa Oyo A. Burgers in blackface. MInneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2019 1517908027 9781517908027 (OCoLC)1109440316 |
| ISBN |
9781452962443 (electronic book) |
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1452962448 (electronic book) |
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