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Book SynopsisThis volume offers a critical, cross-disciplinary, and international overview of emerging scholarship addressing the dynamic relationship between race and markets. Chapters are engaging and accessible, with timely and thought-provoking insights that different audiences can engage with and learn from. Each chapter provides a unique journey into a specific marketplace setting and its sociopolitical particularities including, among others, corner stores in the United States, whitening cream in Nigeria and India, video blogs in Great Britain, and hospitals in France. By providing a cohesive collection of cutting-edge work, Race in the Marketplace contributes to the creation of a robust stream of research that directly informs critical scholarship, business practices, activism, and public policy in promoting racial equity.
Table of ContentsTable of Content
Chapter 1: Introduction Co-Editors
Section 1 - Space and Time
Chapter 2: Making the mass white: how racial segregation shaped consumer segmentation Marcel Rosa-Salas
Chapter 3: Race, markets, and digital technologies: historical and conceptual frameworks W. Trevor Jamerson
Chapter 4: (Re)visiting the corner store: black youth, gentrification, and food sovereignty Naya Jones
Chapter 5: Beyond whiteness: perspectives on the rise of the pan-asian beauty ideal. Jeaney Yip et al.
Section 2– Racialization and Intersectionality
Chapter 6: Shopping while veiled: an exploration of the experiences of veiled muslim consumers in france Ranam Alkayyli
Chapter 7: Constructing and critiquing interracial couples on youtube Francesca Sobande
Chapter 8: Marketing marriage and colorism in india
Komal Dhillon-Jamerson
Chapter 9: ‘Dirty braids’: how hair is disrupting dominant racial narratives in puerto rico post-hurricane maria Jess Vega-Centeno
Section 3 – Voices and Modes of Understanding
Chapter 10: Are black consumers a bellwether for the nation?: how research on blacks can foreground our understanding of race in the marketplace
Cassi Pittman Claytor
Chapter 11: A loan at last? Race and racism in mortgage lending
Vanessa Gail Perry
Chapter 12: Crowd-based markets: technical progress, civil and social regression Lauren Rhue
Section 4 – Neoliberalism, Markets and Marketization
Chapter 13: Cultural justice and collecting: challenging the underrecognition of african american artists Patricia A. Banks
Chapter 14: The new economics of colorism in the skin whitening industry: case of india and nigeria Ramya M. Vijaya
Chapter 15: Race as a currency? Profitability and racialization in french healthcare institutions Dorothée Prud’homme
Chapter 16: Development by markets: an essay on the continuities of colonial development and racism in africa Samuel Kwaku Bonsu
Chapter 17: Afterword Rokhaya Diallo (Journalist – France)
