Dining at the Coon Chicken Inn: Why do racist restaurants matter for public health?

Grand Rounds Lecture

Dining at the Coon Chicken Inn: Why do racist restaurants matter for public health?

February6  |  4pm – 5:30pm  |  Room 708  |  RSVP

Dr. Naa Oyo A. Kwate

Associate Professor of AfricanaStudies and Human Ecology, Rutgers University

A psychologist by training, Dr. Naa Oyo A. Kwate has wide ranging interests in racial inequality and African American health. Her research has centered primarily on the ways in which urban built environments reflect racial inequalities in the United States, and how racism directly and indirectly affects African American health. Kwate’s research has been supported by funders including the National Institutes of Health, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Smithsonian Institution. She is currently working on a book project tracingfast food‚Äôs relationship to African American communities, and a second short monograph entitled The Spice of Racism: Anti-Blackness in Restaurant Branding will be published in early 2019 by the University of Minnesota Press.

This lecture is hosted by the Department of Community Health and Social Sciences.

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