Burgers in Blackface: Anti-Black Restaurants Then and Now (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781517908027)

Exposes and explores the prevalence of racist restaurant branding in the United States

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.

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Author: Naa Oyo a. Kwate
ISBN-10: 1517908027
ISBN-13: 9781517908027
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Language: English
Published: 07/19/2019
Pages: 96
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.20lbs
Size: 6.90h x 5.00w x 0.30d