![]() McDonald's is a big part of this conversation, and we should mention here that the estate of Joan Kroc - the widow of McDonald's Corporation founder Ray Kroc - is among NPR's financial supporters. "And so this book really explores the relationship between black America and McDonald's, to help us understand where other parts of our society has failed, McDonald's has unfortunately had to pick up the slack." So how did that happen? And is fast food the hero or the villain in black America? In her new book “Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America,” history professor Marcia Chatelain traces what she calls the hidden history of the relationships between the struggle for civil rights and the expansion of the fast food industry.Ĭhatelain says that as a child, she constantly noticed that museums and cultural sites in her home town of Chicago had signs indicating they'd been sponsored by the local black McDonald's operators association. And according to the Centers for Disease Control, African Americans are more likely to eat fast food than any other racial group in America - which is why fast food is also seen as the culprit for the high rates of obesity, diabetes and heart disease among black people. For some, owning a franchise has been a path to wealth, but fast food restaurants are hyper-concentrated in some of the country's lowest-income and most segregated areas. ![]() ![]() ![]() But fast food doesn't mean the same thing to everyone everywhere. ![]()
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