
Levine Award, and the 2019-2021 Business History Review Alfred and Fay Chandler Book Award Named one of New York Times critic Jennifer Szalai’s top books of the year and one of Smithsonian Scholars’ top books of 2020 Reference to any specific product or entity does not constitute an endorsement or recommendation by Charles County Public Library.FRANCHISE: THE GOLDEN ARCHES IN BLACK AMERICA Winner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in History Winner of the 2022 James Beard Foundation Book Award for writing, the 2021 Hagley Prize in Business History, the 2021 Organization of American Historians Lawrence W. The views expressed by presenters are their own and their appearance in a program does not imply an endorsement of them or any entity they represent. In 2016, the Chronicle of Higher Education named her a Top Influencer in academia in recognition of her social media campaign #FergusonSyllabus, which implored educators to facilitate discussions about the crisis in Ferguson, Missouri in 2014. An active public speaker and educational consultant, Chatelain has received awards and honors from the Ford Foundation, the American Association of University Women, and the German Marshall Fund of the United States. In 2021, Chatelain received the Pulitzer Prize in History, the Hagley Prize in Business History, and the Organization of American Historians (OAH) Lawrence W. 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 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. Charles County Detention Center Libraryĭr.
