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Race and retail : consumption across the color line

Title
Race and retail : consumption across the color line / edited by Mia Bay and Ann Fabian.
Publication
  • New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2015]
  • ©2015

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Additional Authors
  • Bay, Mia.
  • Fabian, Ann.
Description
vii, 314 pages : illustrations, map; 24 cm
Summary
"Race has long shaped shopping experiences for many Americans. Retail exchanges and establishments have made headlines as flashpoints for conflict not only between blacks and whites, but also between whites, Mexicans, Asian Americans, and a wide variety of other ethnic groups, who have at times found themselves unwelcome at white-owned businesses. Race and Retail documents the extent to which retail establishments, both past and present, have often catered to specific ethnic and racial groups. Using an interdisciplinary approach, the original essays collected here explore selling and buying practices of nonwhite populations around the world and the barriers that shape these habits, such as racial discrimination, food deserts, and gentrification. The contributors highlight more contemporary issues by raising questions about how race informs business owners' ideas about consumer demand, resulting in substandard quality and higher prices for minorities than in predominantly white neighborhoods. In a wide-ranging exploration of the subject, they also address revitalization and gentrification in South Korean and Latino neighborhoods in California, Arab and Turkish coffeehouses and hookah lounges in South Paterson, New Jersey, and tourist capoeira consumption in Brazil. Race and Retail illuminates the complex play of forces at work in racialized retail markets and the everyday impact of those forces on minority consumers. The essays demonstrate how past practice remains in force in subtle and not-so-subtle ways"--
Series Statement
Rutgers studies in race and ethnicity
Uniform Title
Rutgers studies in race and ethnicity.
Alternative Title
Consumption across the color line
Subjects
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-298) and index.
Contents
Introduction / Mia Bay and Ann Fabian -- Part I: Race, place and retail spaces : Traveling Black/buying Black: retail and roadside accommodations during the segregation era / Mia Bay -- Retail messages in the ghetto belt / Naa Oyo A. Kwate -- The other migrants: Mexican shoppers in American borderlands / Geraldo L. Cadava -- Southern retail campaigns and the struggle for Black economic freedom in the 1950s and 1960s / Traci Parker -- Servicing a racial regime: gender, race and the public space of department stores in Baltimore, Maryland, and Johannesburg, South Africa, 1940-1970 / Bridget Kenny -- Part II: Race, retail and communities : Athabascan Village stores: subsistence shopping in interior Alaska in the 1940s / John W. Heaton -- Deghettoizing Chinatown: race and space in postwar America / Ellen D. Wu -- Marketing identity, negotiating boundaries: ethnic entrepreneurship in the coffeehouses and narghile lounges of Paterson, New Jersey / Neiset Bayouth -- The changing politics of Latino consumption: debates related to downtown Santa Ana's new urbanist and creative city redevelopment / Johana Londoño and Erualdo R. González -- The spatial politics of Black business closure in central Brooklyn / Stacey A. Sutton -- Part III: The inner landscapes of racialized consumption : Selling voodoo in migration metropolises / Melissa L. Cooper -- "A fantasy in fashion": luxury dressing and African American lifestyle magazines in the 1980s / Siobhan Carter-David -- Racial discrimination in retail settings: a liberation psychology perspective / Jerome D. Williams, Geraldine Rosa Henderson, Sophia R. Evett, and Anne-Marie G. Hakstian -- Does the retail environment affect mental health? Satisfaction with neighborhood retail and social well-being among African Americans in New York City / Azure B. Thompson and Sharese N. Porter.
Call Number
Sc E 18-600
ISBN
  • 9780813571713
  • 0813571715
  • 9780813571706
  • 0813571707
LCCN
  • 2014043683
  • 99976378811
OCLC
893709665
Title
Race and retail : consumption across the color line / edited by Mia Bay and Ann Fabian.
Publisher
New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2015]
Copyright Date
©2015
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Rutgers studies in race and ethnicity
Rutgers studies in race and ethnicity.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-298) and index.
Added Author
Bay, Mia.
Fabian, Ann.
Other Standard Identifier
99976378811
Sudoc No.
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Research Call Number
Sc E 18-600
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