Race and Retail : : Consumption across the Color Line / / ed. by Mia Bay, Ann Fabian.

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2015]
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Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Rutgers Studies on Race and Ethnicity
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Physical Description:1 online resource (324 p.) :; 11 photographs, 2 maps, 11 tab
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Race, Place, and Retail Spaces
  • 1. Traveling Black/Buying Black: Retail and Roadside Accommodations during the Segregation Era
  • 2. Retail Messages in the Ghetto Belt
  • 3. The Other Migrants: Mexican Shoppers in American Borderlands
  • 4. Southern Retail Campaigns and the Struggle for Black Economic Freedom in the 1950s and 1960s
  • 5. Servicing a Racial Regime: Gender, Race, and the Public Space of Department Stores in Baltimore, Maryland, and Johannesburg, South Africa, 1940-1970
  • Part II: Race, Retail, and Communities
  • 6. Athabascan Village Stores: Subsistence Shopping in Interior Alaska in the 1940s
  • 7. Deghettoizing Chinatown: Race and Space in Postwar America
  • 8. Marketing Identity, Negotiating Boundaries: Ethnic Entrepreneurship in the Coff eehouses and Narghile Lounges of Paterson, New Jersey
  • 9. The Changing Politics of Latino Consumption: Debates Related to Downtown Santa Ana's New Urbanist and Creative City Redevelopment
  • 10. The Spatial Politics of Black Business Closure in Central Brooklyn
  • Part III: The Inner Landscapes of Racialized Consumption
  • 11. Selling Voodoo in Migration Metropolises
  • 12. "A Fantasy in Fashion": Luxury Dressing and African American Lifestyle Magazines in the 1980s
  • 13. Racial Discrimination in Retail Settings: A Liberation Psychology Perspective
  • 14. Does the Retail Environment Affect Mental Health? Satisfaction with Neighborhood Retail and Social Well-Being among African Americans in New York City
  • NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
  • INDEX