Marcia Chatelain (Georgetown University) on her book, Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America. Franchise historicizes the origins of today’s pervasive racialized health disparities by examining the forces that brought McDonald’s into so many corners of Black life. By taking a historical approach to the question of nutrition and food politics, Chatelain brings new insights into […]
Tag: New Deal
Frances Perkins
The exhibition “Frances Perkins: The Woman Behind the New Deal,” currently on display here in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Columbia University, has been extended through March 26, 2010. Please join the Frances Perkins Center at an event on Thursday, January 14, at the Harvard Club. Perkins biographer Kirstin Downey will be joined […]