Pulitzer Prize Winner Series: Marcia Chatelain, Author of Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America, a Black History Month Program

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Registration for this event will close on February 10, 2025 @ 6:30pm.

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Marcia Chatelain, an American academic who serves as the Penn Presidential Compact Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, will discuss her book Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America, winner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for History.

Chatelain’s Franchise investigates the complex interrelationship between Black communities and America’s largest, most popular fast food chain. Taking us from the first McDonald’s drive-in in San Bernardino, California, to the franchise on Florissant Avenue in Ferguson, Missouri, in the summer of 2014, Chatelain shows how fast food is a source of both power―economic and political―and despair for African Americans. As she contends, fast food is, more than ever before, a key battlefield in the fight for racial justice. 

A reception will open the presentation; book sale and signing by Elm Street Books will follow.

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Marcia Chatelain is a professor of History and American Studies at Georgetown University. The author of South Side Girls: Growing up in the Great Migration, she teaches about women's and girls' history as well as Black capitalism. Franchise also won the Hagley Medal for Business History and the Lawrence Levine Award from the Organization of American Historians.


 


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