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"Traci Parker examines the movement to racially integrate white-collar work and consumption in American department stores and its neglected role in the mid-twentieth century black freedom movement. Built on the goals, organization, and momentum of the 1930's 'Don't Buy Where You Can't Work' Movement, the department store movement recruited the power of store workers and labor unions, held behind-the-scene meetings with store officials in the postwar era, executed successful lunch counter sit-ins and selective patronage programs in the 1950s and 1960s, and challenged race discrimination in the courts in the 1970s. However, with the conclusion of the Sears, Roebuck, and Co. affirmative action cases, the movement effectively ended in 1981"--

"In the United States, the fight to secure full civil rights for African American people has endured for centuries. The movement has included many voices, among them, working people, charismatic activists, musicians and artists, the LGBTQIA community, veterans, suburbanites, and elected officials. Moving from the labor struggles of the 1930s to the sit-ins and boycotts of midcentury, and the Black Lives Matter protests of today, this expansive volume brings together first-person accounts, political documents and speeches, and historical photographs from each region of the country. Designed for use in courses and engaging for general readers, this new compilation is the most diverse, most inclusive, and most comprehensive resource available for teaching and learning about the civil rights movement. With chronological and geographical depth, The New Civil Rights Movement Reader addresses a range of key topics, including youth activism, regional and local freedom struggles, voting rights, economic inequality, gender, sexuality, and culture, and the movement's global reach"--

Wellbeing is essential for Black women professionals who are experiencing racial and gender battle fatigue within White spaces and beyond. Strategies for maintaining and thriving are presented not only for them, but for White institutions to become more aware and active in helping to address necessary change.

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