Burgers in Blackface: anti-Black restaurants then and now

"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 ra...

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1. Verfasser: Kwate, Naa Oyo A. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Minneapolis ; London University of Minnesota Press 2019
Schriftenreihe:Forerunners: ideas first
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Zusammenfassung:"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"--
Beschreibung:87 Seiten Illustrationen 18 cm
ISBN:9781517908027
1517908027

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