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Race and Retail: Consumption across the Color Line
Mia Bay (Ed.)
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Description for Race and Retail: Consumption across the Color Line
Hardback. .
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, ... Read more
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, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Condition
New
Series
Rutgers Studies on Race and Ethnicity
Number of Pages
324
Place of Publication
New Brunswick NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813571713
SKU
V9780813571713
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Ref
99-1
About Mia Bay (Ed.)
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Race and Retail: Consumption across the Color Line
"This is the most important book on race and consumerism in many years."
Kathy M. Newman
author of Radio Active: Advertising and Consumer Activism, 1935-1947
"Providing effective analyses of how ethnicity affects people's experience as consumers as well as citizens, this cohesive collection will have a broad audience … Highly recommended."
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"A fine resource ... Read more
Kathy M. Newman
author of Radio Active: Advertising and Consumer Activism, 1935-1947
"Providing effective analyses of how ethnicity affects people's experience as consumers as well as citizens, this cohesive collection will have a broad audience … Highly recommended."
CHOICE
"A fine resource ... Read more