She is also the author of South Side Girls: Growing up in the Great Migration. Marcia Chatelain is a Professor of History and African American Studies at Georgetown University. 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 had found an economic answer to the problem of racial inequality.Ībout the author: Dr. McDonald’s has often been blamed for the rising rates of obesity and diabetes among black Americans. Marcia Chatelain set out to answer the question of how fast-food restaurants so thoroughly saturate black neighborhoods. Marcia Chatelain as she discusses her Pulitzer prize-winning book, Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America.ĭr.
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