Contents
Introduction: How Did Fast Food Become Black?
Part I. White Utopias
1. A Fortress of Whiteness: First-Generation Fast Food in the Early Twentieth Century
2. Inharmonious Food Groups: Burger Chateaux, Chicken Shacks, and Urban Renewal’s Attack on the Existential Threat of Blackness
3. Suburbs and Sundown Towns: The Rise of Second-Generation Fast Food
4. Freedom from Panic: American Myth and the Untenability of Black Space
5. Delinquents, Disorder, and Death: Racial Violence and Fast Food’s Growing Disrepute at Midcentury
Part II. Racial Turnover
6. How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? (Mis)Managing Racial Change and the Advent of Black Operators
7. To Banish, Boycott, or Bash? Moderates and Militants Clash in Cleveland
8. Government Burgers: Federal Financing of Fast Food in the Ghetto
9. You’ve Got to Be In: Black Franchisors and Black Economic Power
Part III. Black Catastrophe
10. Blaxploitation: Fast Food Stokes a New Urban Logic
11. PUSH and Pull: Black Advertising and Racial Covenants Fuel Fast Food Growth
12. Ghetto Wars: Fast Food Tussles for Profits amid Sufferation
13. Criminal Chicken: Perceptions of Deviant Black Consumption
14. 365 Black: A Racial Transformation Complete
Conclusion: The Racial Costs
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
