12. “A Fantasy in Fashion”: Luxury Dressing and African American Lifestyle Magazines in the 1980s

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I: Race, Place, and Retail Spaces
6. 1. Traveling Black/Buying Black: Retail and Roadside Accommodations during the Segregation Era 15
7. 2. Retail Messages in the Ghetto Belt 34
8. 3. The Other Migrants: Mexican Shoppers in American Borderlands 57
9. 4. Southern Retail Campaigns and the Struggle for Black Economic Freedom in the 1950s and 1960s 77
10. 5. Servicing a Racial Regime: Gender, Race, and the Public Space of Department Stores in Baltimore, Maryland, and Johannesburg, South Africa, 1940–1970 99
11. Part II: Race, Retail, and Communities
12. 6. Athabascan Village Stores: Subsistence Shopping in Interior Alaska in the 1940s 123
13. 7. Deghettoizing Chinatown: Race and Space in Postwar America 141
14. 8. Marketing Identity, Negotiating Boundaries: Ethnic Entrepreneurship in the Coff eehouses and Narghile Lounges of Paterson, New Jersey 163
15. 9. The Changing Politics of Latino Consumption: Debates Related to Downtown Santa Ana’s New Urbanist and Creative City Redevelopment 176
16. 10. The Spatial Politics of Black Business Closure in Central Brooklyn 200
17. Part III: The Inner Landscapes of Racialized Consumption
18. 11. Selling Voodoo in Migration Metropolises 225
19. 12. “A Fantasy in Fashion”: Luxury Dressing and African American Lifestyle Magazines in the 1980s 246
20. 13. Racial Discrimination in Retail Settings: A Liberation Psychology Perspective 263
21. 14. Does the Retail Environment Affect Mental Health? Satisfaction with Neighborhood Retail and Social Well-Being among African Americans in New York City 278
22. NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 295
23. INDEX 299