Introduction : how did fast food become Black?
A fortress of whiteness : first-generation fast food in the early twentieth century
Inharmonious food groups : Burger Chateaux, Chicken Shacks, and urban renewal's attack on the existential threat of Blackness
Suburbs and sundown towns : the rise of second-generation fast food
Freedom from panic : American myth and the untenability of Black space
Delinquents, disorder, and death : racial violence and fast food's growing disrepute at midcentury
How does it feel to be a problem? (Mis)managing racial change and the advent of Black operators
To banish, boycott, or bash? Moderates and militants clash in Cleveland
Government burgers : federal financing of fast food in the ghetto
You've got to be in : Black franchisors and Black economic power
Blaxploitation : fast food stokes a new urban logic
Push and pull : Black advertising and racial covenants fuel fast food growth
Ghetto wars : fast food tussles for profits amid sufferation
Criminal chicken : perceptions of deviant Black consumption
365 Black : a racial transformation complete
Conclusion : the racial costs.