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Author Talk: Dr. Marcia Chatelain

Author Talk: Dr. Marcia Chatelain August 3, 2022 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Join us in conversation with Dr. Marcia Chatelain as she discusses her Pulitzer prize-winning book, Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America. Dr. Marcia Chatelain set out to answer the question of how fast-food restaurants so thoroughly saturate black neighborhoods. McDonald’s has often been blamed for the rising rates of obesity and diabetes among black Americans. In Franchise, Chatelain uncovers a surprising history of cooperation among fast-food companies, black capitalists, and civil rights leaders, who–in the troubled years after King’s assassination–believed they found an economic answer to the problem of racial inequality. Register here LSC | Watch | Ignacio Community Library Webinars and Online Events (libraryc.org)