Fast Food Relics
Naa Oyo A. Kwate bulletin, capitalism, cities, economics, human geography, photography, race, race and markets 21 May 2021
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In this contribution to ISRF Bulletin 23, Naa Oyo A. Kwate asks what a 1981 picture of a derelict McDonald’s franchise in Compton, California, can tell us about the broader history of racialised deindustrialisation.