RIM Special Issues
The Impact of Race on Consumers in the Marketplace
(Journal of Consumer Affairs, Volume 55, Issue 2, 2021)
RIM Guest Editors: Frederick F. Wherry & Vanessa Gail Perry
In this special issue, the papers address the role of race and racism in the experience of access to markets, and how these patterns can be changed. These papers explore these issues in several different market contexts, including financial services, technology, and symbolic/aesthetic consumption practices… Read More
Race and Markets
(ISRF Bulletin, Issue 23, 2021)
RIM Guest Editors: Francesca Sobande, Alice Schoonejans, Guillaume D. Johnson, Kevin D. Thomas, Anthony Kwame Harrison, Sonya A. Grier
Structured around the theme of ‘Race and Markets,’ the contributions of this issue of the ISRF Bulletin investigate the many complex relations between racial identities and markets, reflecting along the way on the (photographic) gaze, racialised forms of marketing, and questions of anti-racist strategy… Read More
Marketing and Managing Racial Dynamics – in Theory and Practice
(Journal of Marketing Management, Volume 36, Issue 13-14, 2020)
RIM Guest Editors: Kevin D. Thomas, Judy Foster Davis, Jonathan A.J. Wilson & Francesca Sobande
This special issue features race-based market research that critically examines how history, social hierarchies, power, privilege and peoples’ actions shape markets and impact consumer experiences and lives… Read More
White Reign
(Dysfunction #6, 2019)
RIM Guest Editor: Anthony Kwame Harrison
As an addendum to the 2019 Race in the Marketplace (RIM) Research Forum, this issue of DYSFUNCTION centers the career of James Albert “Billboard” Jackson as a catalyst for contemplating the conditions and experiences of Black travel in White supremacist America… Read More