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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809355903321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Brunswick, NJ : , : Rutgers University Press, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

0-8135-7172-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (324 p.)

Collana

Rutgers Studies on Race and Ethnicity

Altri autori (Persone)

BayMia

BayouthNeiset

CadavaGeraldo L. <1977->

Carter-DavidSiobhan

CooperMelissa L

EvettSophia R

FabianAnn

GonzálezErualdo R

HakstianAnne-Marie G

HeatonJohn W

HendersonGeraldine Rosa

KennyBridget

KwateNaa Oyo A

LondoñoJohana

ParkerTraci

PorterSharese N

SuttonStacey A

ThompsonAzure B

WilliamsJerome D

WuEllen D

Disciplina

381.1089

Soggetti

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Consumer Behavior

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General

Consumption (Economics) - Social aspects - United States - History

Shopping - Social aspects - United States - History

Minorities - United States - Economic conditions

Stores, Retail - Social aspects - United States - History

Retail trade - Social aspects - United States - History

United States Commerce Social aspects History

United States Race relations Economic aspects History



Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction / Bay, Mia / Fabian, Ann -- Part I: Race, Place, and Retail Spaces -- 1. Traveling Black/Buying Black: Retail and Roadside Accommodations during the Segregation Era / Bay, Mia -- 2. Retail Messages in the Ghetto Belt / Kwate, Naa Oyo A. -- 3. The Other Migrants: Mexican Shoppers in American Borderlands / Cadava, Geraldo L . -- 4. Southern Retail Campaigns and the Struggle for Black Economic Freedom in the 1950s and 1960s / Parker, Traci -- 5. Servicing a Racial Regime: Gender, Race, and the Public Space of Department Stores in Baltimore, Maryland, and Johannesburg, South Africa, 1940-1970 / Kenny, Bridget -- Part II: Race, Retail, and Communities -- 6. Athabascan Village Stores: Subsistence Shopping in Interior Alaska in the 1940s / Heaton, John W. -- 7. Deghettoizing Chinatown: Race and Space in Postwar America / Wu, Ellen D. -- 8. Marketing Identity, Negotiating Boundaries: Ethnic Entrepreneurship in the Coff eehouses and Narghile Lounges of Paterson, New Jersey / Bayouth, Neiset -- 9. The Changing Politics of Latino Consumption: Debates Related to Downtown Santa Ana's New Urbanist and Creative City Redevelopment / Londoño, Johana / González, Erualdo R . -- 10. The Spatial Politics of Black Business Closure in Central Brooklyn / Sutton, Stacey A . -- Part III: The Inner Landscapes of Racialized Consumption -- 11. Selling Voodoo in Migration Metropolises / Cooper, Melissa L . -- 12. "A Fantasy in Fashion": Luxury Dressing and African American Lifestyle Magazines in the 1980s / Carter-David, Siobhan -- 13. Racial Discrimination in Retail Settings: A Liberation Psychology Perspective / Williams, Jerome D. / Henderson, Geraldine Rosa / Evett, Sophia R. / Hakstian, Anne-Marie G. -- 14. Does the Retail Environment Affect Mental Health? Satisfaction with Neighborhood Retail and Social Well-Being among African Americans in New York City / Thompson, Azure B. / Porter, Sharese N. -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

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.