{"product_id":"burgers-in-blackface-anti-black-restaurants-then-and-now-9781517908027","title":"Burgers in Blackface: Anti-Black Restaurants Then","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExposes and explores the prevalence of racist restaurant branding in the United States \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eBurgers in Blackface\u003c\/i\u003e gives a powerful account, and rebuke, of historical and contemporary racism in restaurant branding.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eForerunners: Ideas First\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShort books of thought-in-process scholarship, where intense analysis, questioning, and speculation take the lead\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This book succeeds in showing how certain racist restaurants were founded to capitalize on the degradation of other human beings through the use of pernicious stereotypes. The real value in this book is its ability to open up questions of racism at the heart of American society and food culture, all to the detriment of the African American experience.\"—\u003ci\u003eFood, Culture \u0026amp; Society\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409709670743,"sku":"9781517908027","price":9.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781517908027.jpg?v=1730507755","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/burgers-in-blackface-anti-black-restaurants-then-and-now-9781517908027","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}