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Marcia Chatelain

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Marcia Chatelain is a Provost’s Distinguished Associate Professor of History and African American Studies at Georgetown University. Previously, she was the Reach for Excellence Assistant Professor of Honors and African American Studies at the University of Oklahoma’s Honors College. After graduating the University of Missouri in 2001, Chatelain worked in Washington, D.C. as the Resident Scholar at the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation. In 2008, Chatelain graduated with her Ph.D. in American Civilization from Brown University. While at Brown, Chatelain received the University of California-Santa Barbara’s Black Studies Dissertation Fellowship. The author of South Side Girls: Growing up in the Great Migration ( Duke University Press, 201 Marcia Chatelain is a Provost’s Distinguished Associate Professor of History and African American Studies at Georgetown University. Previously, she was the Reach for Excellence Assistant Professor of Honors and African American Studies at the University of Oklahoma’s Honors College. After graduating the University of Missouri in 2001, Chatelain worked in Washington, D.C. as the Resident Scholar at the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation. In 2008, Chatelain graduated with her Ph.D. in American Civilization from Brown University. While at Brown, Chatelain received the University of California-Santa Barbara’s Black Studies Dissertation Fellowship. The author of South Side Girls: Growing up in the Great Migration ( Duke University Press, 2015) she teaches about women’s and girls’ history, as well as the history of black capitalism. Her forthcoming book, Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America (Liveright Publishing Co./ W.W. Norton, January 2020) will examine the intricate relationship among African American politicians, civil rights organizations, communities, and the fast food industry. She is busy at work on another book which will examine the history of college access programs and the specific ways that first-generation college students are transforming higher education. Chatelain has published pieces for The Atlantic, Time, The Washington Post, Ms. Magazine, Dissent and The Chronicle of Higher Education. In 2017, Chatelain contributed to the popular podcast, “Undisclosed,” serving as the resident historian on a narrative arc about the 2015 death of Freddie Gray while in the custody of the Baltimore Police Department. She is a current co-host of the Slate podcast, “The Waves,” which covers feminism, gender, and current events. An active public speaker and educational consultant, Chatelain has received awards and honors from the Ford Foundation, the American Association of University Women, and the German Marshall Fund of the United States. At Georgetown, she has won several teaching awards. In 2016, the Chronicle of Higher Education named her a Top Influencer in academia in recognition of her social media campaign #FergusonSyllabus, which implored educators to facilitate discussions about the crisis in Ferguson, Missouri in 2014. In 2017, she held an Eric and Wendy Schmidt Fellowship at the New America think tank. During the 2017-2018 academic year, she held a National Endowment for the Humanities Faculty Fellowship. She was awarded an Andrew Carnegie Fellowship in 2019. She makes her home on Georgetown’s campus as a faculty-in-residence at Pedro Arrupe, S.J. Hall. ...more

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	Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America 3.83 avg rating — 1,690 ratings — published 2020 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	South Side Girls: Growing Up in the Great Migration 3.96 avg rating — 141 ratings — published 2015 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bodies of Information: Intersectional Feminism and Digital Humanities by Elizabeth Losh (Editor), Jacqueline Wernimont (Editor), Babalola Titilola Aiyegbusi (Contributor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2019 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Long Year: A 2020 Reader by Thomas J. Sugrue (Editor), Andy Horowitz (Contributor), Eric Charmes (Contributor) 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“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

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“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

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“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

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Poll for February's group read, AA Nonfiction. Which selection would you like to read? This poll will on remain open until January 7. This should give us enough time to purchase/borrow the book in order to start reading on February 1. Please remember to only vote if you plan on participating.

- South Side Girls: Growing Up in the Great Migration by Marcia Chatelain

18 votes, 24.3%

- Smoketown: The Untold Story of the Other Great Black Renaissance by Mark Whitaker

12 votes, 16.2%

- Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America by Keisha N. Blain

10 votes, 13.5%

- Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow by Henry Louis Gates Jr.

9 votes, 12.2%

- A Haven and a Hell: The Ghetto in Black America by Lance Freeman

8 votes, 10.8%

Caste by Isabella Wilkerson (write-in)

7 votes, 9.5%

- May We Forever Stand: A History of the Black National Anthem by Imani Perry

5 votes, 6.8%

- Harlem's Hell Fighters: The African-American 369th Infantry in World War I by Stephen L. Harris

5 votes, 6.8%

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