Naa Oyo Kwate

Naa Oyo A. Kwate is an interdisciplinary social scientist with wide ranging interests in racial inequality, African American health, and urban life. Her research has been funded by grants and fellowships from the National Institutes of Health, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Smithsonian Institution, the European Institutes for Advanced Studies, and others.

The project

Title: Cognac and the Black Consumer Market

Selection of publications

Kwate, N.O.A. (2023).  White Burgers, Black Cash: Fast Food from Black Exclusion to Exploitation.Minneapolis:  University of Minnesota Press.

Kwate, N.O.A.  (2019).  Burgers in Blackface:  Anti-Black Restaurants Then and Now.  Minneapolis:University of Minnesota Press, Forerunners Series.

Kwate, N.O.A., (Ed.) with photographs by Camilo J. Vergara.  (2021).  The Street:  A Photographic Field Guide to American Inequality.  New Brunswick, NJ:  Rutgers University Press.

Kwate, N.O.A.  (2021).  The corner liquor store:  Rethinking toxicity in the Black metropolis. Journal of Medical Humanities, 42(3), 307-323.

Kwate, N.O.A. (2020). Festival in the time of COVID-19. Gastronomica, 20(3), 14.