Join us as Dr. Marcia Chatelain, a historian of race, gender, and ethnicity in America, discusses her latest book Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America.

Marcia Chatelain is a Provost's Distinguished Associate Professor of History and African American Studies at Georgetown University. She is a scholar of African-American life and culture, and her first book South Side Girls: Growing up in the Great Migration reimagined the mass exodus of black Southerners to the urban North from the perspective of girls and teenage women.

She has been named a Ford Foundation Diversity Fellow (2012), French American Foundation Young Leader (2015), and National Endowment for the Humanities Faculty Fellow (2017-2018), among other awards. In 2016, the Chronicle of Higher Education named her a Top Influencer in Higher Education in recognition of her curation of #FergusonSyllabus, a response to the crisis in Ferguson, Missouri in 2014. She is also a 2019 Andrew Carnegie Fellow, and a co-host on the Slate podcast, “The Waves.”

Her latest book, Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America, examines the intersection of the post-1968 civil rights struggle and the rise of fast food industry.

Books will be available for purchase and signing courtesy of Mac's Backs - Books on Coventry.

Register for the event on the Cuyahoga County Public Library website.