Americans
Arab coffeehouses
Asian Americans
blacks
Brazil
buying practices
California
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conflict
consumer demand
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establishments
ethnic groups
everyday impact.
food deserts
gentrification
higher prices
hookah lounges
interdisciplinary approach
Latino neighborhoods
Mexicans
minority consumers
New Jersey
nonwhite populations
original essays
past practice
predominantly white neighborhoods
Race and Retail
racial discrimination
racialized retail markets
retail exchanges
revitalization
selling practices
shopping experiences
South Korean neighborhoods
South Paterson
substandard quality
tourist capoeira consumption
Turkish coffeehouses
white-owned businesses
whites
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- ISBN 9780813571706
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 04 Aug 2015
- Publisher: Rutgers University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 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.
MIA BAY is a professor of history and co-director of the Rutgers Center for Race and Ethnicity at Rutgers University. She is the author of The White Image in the Black Mind: African-American Ideas About White People 1830–1925.
ANN FABIAN is a distinguished professor of history and co-director of the Rutgers Center for Race and Ethnicity at Rutgers University. She is the author of The Skull Collectors: Race, Science, and America’s Unburied Dead.
ANN FABIAN is a distinguished professor of history and co-director of the Rutgers Center for Race and Ethnicity at Rutgers University. She is the author of The Skull Collectors: Race, Science, and America’s Unburied Dead.
