Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague, Randall David K.

Автор: Joseph K. Houts
Название: Joseph James Kinyoun: Discoverer of Bubonic Plague in America and Father of the National Institutes of Health
ISBN: 1476682909 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781476682907
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Tells a timely story about yellow journalism, coverup, corruption, the struggle between science and politics, and the consequences of blind denial of the truth.

Автор: Chatelain Marcia
Название: Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America
ISBN: 1631493949 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781631493942
Издательство: Wiley
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An estimated one-third of all American adults eats something from at a fast-food restaurant every day. Millions start their mornings with paper-wrapped English muffin breakfast sandwiches, order burritos hastily secured in foil for lunch, and end their evenings with extravalue dinners consumed in cars. But while people of all ages and backgrounds enjoy and depend on fast food, it does not mean the same thing to each of us. For African Americans, as acclaimed historian Marcia Chatelain reveals in Franchise, fast food is a source of both despair and power--and a battlefield on which the fight for racial justice has been waged since the 1960s.

On the one hand, we rightly blame fast food for the rising rates of obesity and diabetes among black Americans, and fast food restaurants are viewed as symbols of capitalism's disastrous effects on our nation's most vulnerable citizens. Yet at the same time, Chatelain shows, fast food companies, and McDonald's in particular, have represented a source of economic opportunity and political power. After Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination in 1968, many activists turned to entrepreneurship as the means to achieving equality. Civil rights leaders, fast food companies, black capitalists, celebrities, and federal bureaucrats began an unlikely collaboration, in the belief that the franchising of fast food restaurants, by black citizens in their own neighborhoods, could improve the quality of black life.

Equipped with federal loans and utterly committed to the urban centers in which they would open their little sites of hope, black franchise pioneers achieved remarkable success, and by the late 2000s, black-franchised McDonald's restaurants reported total sales exceeding $2 billion. Fast food represented an opportunity for strivers who had been shut out of many industries, denied promotions in those that would tolerate them, and discouraged, in numerous ways, from starting their own businesses, all because of the color of their skin. But a parallel story emerged, too--of wealth being extracted from black communities, of the ravages of fast food diets, of minumum wage jobs with little prospect for advancement.

Taking us from the first McDonald's drive-in in San Bernardino in the 1940s to civil rights protests at franchises in the American South in the 1960s and the McDonald's on Florissant Avenue in Ferguson in the summer 2014, Chatelain charts how the fight for racial justice is intertwined with the fate of black businesses. Deeply researched and brilliantly told, Franchise is an essential story of race and capitalism in America.

Автор: Chatelain Marcia
Название: Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America
ISBN: 1631498703 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781631498701
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: WINNER * 2021 PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY Winner * 2022 James Beard Foundation Book Award [Writing] The "stunning" (David W. Blight) untold history of how fast food became one of the greatest generators of black wealth in America.