Dining on Racism

Restaurant names and themes can be methods for upholding systemic racism or dismantling it. Join Dr. Carol François and Kourtney Square, her niece, as they serve up a menu from American restaurant history describing restaurants that made no bones about using racial stereotypes and slurs as part of their names and themes and others that were central to the Civil Rights movement. Want more, take our course Systemic Racism: See it, Say it, Confront it at www.whyaretheysoangry.com and find us anywhere at www.podpage.com.whyaretheysoangry Citations A look at claims of racial bias in U.S. restaurants From high-end to Waffle House, why do some restaurants just feel racist? Jim Crow Museum Kwate, Naa Oyo A., Burgers in Blackface, University of Minnesota Press, 2019. “Mammy’s Cupboard,” https://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/3344?fbclid=IwAR1sZduAnJwYzwMffFsNIQPOFfDAIjo8sfWSH6OBYOtza2JGua5P7KFZOx4 McElya, Micki , Clinging to Mammy: The Faithful Slave in Twentieth Century America, Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 2007. Pancakes and Pickaninnies: The Saga of 'Sambo's,' The 'Racist' Restaurant Chain America Once Loved “Restaurant-ing through history,”https://restaurant-ingthroughhistory.com/tag/racism/, June 28, 2020. San Francisco's rowdy and racist chicken-themed restaurant: Topsy's Roost The Beloved Georgia Restaurant That Turned Racial Stereotyping Into a Tourist Attraction The Coon Chicken Inn: North Seattle's Beacon of Bigotry - Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project The History of Coon Chicken Inn - Anti-black Imagery - Jim Crow Museum The last remaining Sambo's finally erases its name The Story about Aunt Jemima and the Illinois Aunt Jemima's Kitchen Restaurants The Troubling History of Sambo’s Pancake House