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Book Talk: “White Burgers, Black Cash: Fast Food From Black Exclusion to Exploitation” by Dr. Naa Oyo A. Kwate

February 24, 2023 @ 2:00 pm 3:30 pm

Join CUNY SPH for a book talk by Dr. Naa Oyo A. Kwate, Associate Professor of Africana Studies and Human Ecology at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, on her newest book “White Burgers, Black Cash: Fast Food from Black Exclusion to Exploitation” (Forthcoming by University of Minnesota Press, 2023). Dr. Kwate’s research has centered on the ways in which urban built environments reflect racial inequalities in the United States, and how racism directly and indirectly affects African American health. She is also author of “Burgers in Blackface: Anti-Black Restaurants Then and Now” (University of Minnesota Press, 2019) and editor of “The Street: A Photographic Field Guide to American Inequality” (Rutgers University Press, 2021).