Marcia Chatelain > Quotes

“Many of the critiques and responses to the impact of fast food on communities of color focus solely on food and not the infrastructure that surrounds food systems.”
― Marcia Chatelain, Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America

“Now we are poor people, individually we are poor when you compare us with white society in America. We are poor. Never stop and forget that collectively, that means all of us together, collectively we are richer than all the nations in the world, with the exception of nine. Did you ever think about that? After you leave the United States, Soviet Russia, Great Britain, West Germany, France . . . the American Negro collectively is richer than most nations of the world. We have an annual income of more than thirty billion dollars a year, which is more than all of the exports of the United States and more than the national budget of Canada.”
― Marcia Chatelain, Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America

“Ultimately, history encourages us to be more compassionate toward individuals navigating few choices, and history cautions us to be far more critical of the institutions and structures that have the power to take choices away.”
― Marcia Chatelain, Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America

“Fast food is a prism for understanding race, shifts in the movement for civil rights, the dissemination of black culture, and racial capitalism—the deep connections between the development of modern capitalism and racist subjugation and oppression—since the 1960s.”
― Marcia Chatelain, Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America

“a company relies on a massive “outsourcing strategy to build a mass marketing giant.” This form of commercial development allows corporations to pass on their liabilities to third-party suppliers, franchisees, and to some degree, local governments. Cities eager to attract businesses subsidize business growth through the preparation of land, by providing increased policing, and by offering tax breaks.”
― Marcia Chatelain, Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America

“When critics mock students for wanting safe spaces, they often argue that political correctness is undermining education and that students today are "too sensitive." Rarely do I ever hear any curiosity about what students are seeking shelter from; when my friends and I peered around the corners of our sprawling campus, dissenting opinions were the least of our worries.”
― Marcia Chatelain