{"id":62676,"date":"2014-05-28T09:00:54","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T14:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=62676"},"modified":"2014-06-09T00:01:23","modified_gmt":"2014-06-09T05:01:23","slug":"distrust-for-black-entrepreneurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2014\/05\/28\/distrust-for-black-entrepreneurs\/","title":{"rendered":"Distrust for Black Entrepreneurs"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new study finds that users of classified ads discriminate against people perceived as black. \u00a0Over a one year period, economists Jennifer Doleac and Luke Stein placed fake ads for used iPods<\/a> in local online classified. \u00a0They included photographs of the product held by a hand. \u00a0Some hands were light-skinned, others dark, and they also included a second potentially stigmatized identity, men with tattoos. \u00a0Otherwise the ads were all identical.<\/p>\n

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Doleac and Stein found that buyers were less likely to contact or make a deal with black sellers; they received 13% fewer responses and 17% fewer offers. \u00a0When they did receive an offer, the price suggested was slightly lower than that offered to presumably white sellers.<\/p>\n

Buyers also seemed to be significantly more suspicious of black sellers. \u00a0When interacting with a seller with brown skin,\u00a0Doleac and Stein write:<\/p>\n

They are 17% less likely to include their name in e-mails,\u00a044% less likely to accept delivery by mail, and 56% more likely to express concern about\u00a0making a long-distance payment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Black sellers did especially poorly in the Northeast, when there wasn’t very much competition, and in markets that were racially isolated or had high crime rates.<\/p>\n

Notably, buyers discriminated against people with wrist tattoos at about the same rate, suggesting that both tattoos and brown skin inspire similar levels of distrust.<\/p>\n

H\/t to Abi Jones<\/a> for the link. Cross-posted at Pacific Standard<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A new study finds that users of classified ads discriminate against people perceived as black. \u00a0Over a one year period, economists Jennifer Doleac and Luke Stein placed fake ads for used iPods in local online classified. \u00a0They included photographs of the product held by a hand. \u00a0Some hands were light-skinned, others dark, and they also […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":62677,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[218,225,283,285,1760,20063,1757,76],"class_list":["post-62676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bodies","tag-clothesfashion","tag-prejudicediscrimination","tag-raceethnicity","tag-raceethnicity-blacksafricans","tag-raceethnicity-prejudicediscrimination","tag-raceethnicity-whiteseuropeans","tag-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2014\/05\/18.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62676"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62814,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62676\/revisions\/62814"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}