About
The
Author

Naa Oyo A. Kwate is an interdisciplinary social scientist with wide ranging interests in racial inequality and African American health. A psychologist by training, her research has primarily centered on urban built environments, retail resources, and the direct and indirect effects of racism on African American health. In addition to the research for White Burgers, Black Cash, Kwate’s work has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Smithsonian Institution, the European Institutes for Advanced Studies, the Newberry Library, and others. She is the author of the short work, Burgers in Blackface: Anti-Black Restaurants Then and Now, published by the University of Minnesota Press, and editor of The Street: A Photographic Field Guide to American Inequality, published by Rutgers University Press. She is currently writing a book investigating the impact of corner liquor stores on Black urban life.