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Race and Retail : Consumption Across the Color Line by Mia Bay; Neiset Bayouth; Geraldo L Cadava; Siobhan Carter-David; Melissa L Cooper; Sophia R Evett; Ann Fabian; Erualdo R González; Anne-Marie G Hakstian; John W Heaton; Geraldine Rosa Henderson; Bridget Kenny; Naa Oyo A Kwate; Johana Londoño; Traci Parker; Sharese N Porter; Stacey A Sutton; Azure B Thompson; Jerome D Williams; Ellen D Wu is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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 hook

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Author

Mia Bay; Neiset Bayouth; Geraldo L Cadava; Siobhan Carter-David; Melissa L Cooper; Sophia R Evett; Ann Fabian; Erualdo R González; Anne-Marie G Hakstian; John W Heaton; Geraldine Rosa Henderson; Bridget Kenny; Naa Oyo A Kwate; Johana Londoño; Traci Parker; Sharese N Porter; Stacey A Sutton; Azure B Thompson; Jerome D Williams; Ellen D Wu

Publisher

Rutgers University Press

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9780813575353

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Business, History