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Retail racism : shopping while Black and Brown in America / Michelle R. Dunlap.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dunlap, Michelle R., 1965- author.
- Series:
- Perspectives on a multiracial America series.
- Perspectives on a multiracial America series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American consumers.
- Customer relations--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.
- Customer relations.
- Minority consumers--United States.
- Minority consumers.
- Race discrimination--United States.
- Race discrimination.
- Retail trade--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.
- Retail trade.
- Shoplifting--United States--Prevention.
- Shoplifting.
- Stores, Retail--Security measures--United States.
- Stores, Retail.
- Race relations.
- Shoplifting--Prevention.
- Stores, Retail--Security measures.
- United States--Race relations.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxi, 353 pages) : illustrations.
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing(US), 2021.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2021]
- Summary:
- Retail Racism helps readers understand the experiences of ordinary Black and Brown people as they navigate everyday shopping. Based on interviews with minority consumers across the country, Michelle Dunlap enables a larger discussion that engages readers and empowers them to confront the racialized handling of consumers in America today.
- Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction
- pt. I MONITORING. Poem 1. Alfreda recalls Marshall Fields / Tara Betts
- Monitoring : introduction
- Misperceived : "Oh Reverend, I'm so sorry" (Alton's story)
- Mistrusted : "So I'm a suspect, and it makes me feel terrible" (Balbira's story)
- Mortified : "My sense of gravity knows where your center of gravity is" (Chad's story)
- Managed : "Fried chicken!" (Dana's story)
- Mistook : "I was hoping to live long enough to see major changes on Earth" (Eleanor's story)
- Monitoring : things that Part I's stories can teach consumers and marketers
- Monitoring : reflection questions and related readings
- pt. II INEQUITIES. Poem 2. Internal dialogue / Micah E. Lubensky
- Poem 3. "Two friends / Lisa Mallory
- Inequities : introduction
- Indicted : "It's not for sale" (Graham's story)
- Intimidated : "It's really painful for a kid" (janisha's story)
- Insulted : "Every kind of cracker that Nabisco makes" (Tamir's story)
- Invalidated : "I am the minority, the `foreigner'" (Hart's story)
- Inequities : things that Part IIs stories can teach consumers and marketers
- Inequities : reflection questions and related readings
- pt. III TRAUMAS. Poem 4. #If I was gunned down / Malik S. Champlain
- Poem 5. Brown girl shopping / Arakcelis Gomez
- Traumas : introduction
- Targeted : "The book of robbers, scammers, and fraudulents" (Finley's story)
- Traumatized : "Wouldn't you want to hear my story if you're ready to shoot me?" (Kenrec's story)
- Terrified : "This is what you put me through as a mother
- as a Black mother and her son
- in this community" (Latasha's story)
- Triggered : "My DNA remembers, even if my conscious mind doesn't" / Michelle R. Dunlap
- Tormented : "I lifted my sweater just enough for them to see I had stolen nothing" (Priscilla's story)
- Traumas : things that Part Ill's stories can teach consumers and marketers
- Traumas : reflection questions and related readings
- pt. IV PHILOSOPHIES. Poem 6. The invisible pause / Denise M. Keyes
- Poem 7. Whitney in the purple Dress / Michelle R. Dunlap
- Philosophies : introduction
- Plagued : "It's a wonder [Black people] live to fifty" (Rekia's story)
- Preconceived : "[I'm] the bull's-Eye!" (Stephon's story)
- Privileged : "Just because I'm white doesn't mean it does not matter" (Heather's story)
- Perturbed : "I am no fan of insurance companies, pure and simple" (Vernon's story)
- Provoked : "I try to Go to stores that cause the least stress" (Yvette's story)
- Philosophies : things that Part IV's stories can teach consumers and marketers
- Philosophies : reflection questions and related readings
- pt. V CONCLUSION. Poem 8. Shopping while Black / Frances Shani Parker
- Conclusion
- Poem 9. In Her Image / Kenneth E. Watts.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed on January 17, 2023).
- ISBN:
- 979-82-16-42335-5
- 1-5381-8428-1
- 1-5381-3714-3
- OCLC:
- 1259593102
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