{"id":81,"date":"2013-11-11T19:18:37","date_gmt":"2013-11-11T19:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/?p=81"},"modified":"2015-10-13T19:12:27","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T19:12:27","slug":"shop-and-frisk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/2013\/11\/11\/shop-and-frisk\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Shop and Frisk&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Shopping while black is not a crime, but what happens when a store assumes the customer is always white?<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/colorofchange.org\/\">ColorofChange.org<\/a> has created a petition urging the NYPD to conduct a full investigation into over 50 arrests of young people, predominantly of color, outside of major department stores like Barney\u2019s and Macy\u2019s. Why hasn\u2019t the \u201cshop and frisk\u201d trend gone out of style? \u00a0Theories on race and racism, as well as the application of such ideas through social experiments, may offer some useful insights.<\/p>\n<h5>To study the gap between actions and rhetoric, audit studies reveal patterns of discrimination in the working world which shape employment opportunities for many low-wage workers of color.<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.princeton.edu\/~pager\/\">Pager, Devah<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sociology.northwestern.edu\/people\/faculty\/lincoln-quillian.html\">Lincoln Quillian<\/a>. 2005. \u00a0\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/asr.sagepub.com\/content\/70\/3\/355.short\">Walking the Talk? What Employers Say Versus What They Do.\u201d<\/a> <em>American Sociological Review<\/em>. 70: 355-80.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Pager, Devah, <a href=\"http:\/\/scholar.harvard.edu\/brucewestern\">Bruce Western<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/scholar.harvard.edu\/bonikowski\/\"> Bart Bonikowski<\/a>. \u00a02009. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/asr.sagepub.com\/content\/74\/5\/777.short\">\u201cDiscrimination in a Low-Wage Labor\u00a0Market: A Field Experiment.\u201d<\/a> \u00a0<em>American Sociological Review<\/em>. \u00a079: 777-99.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Some theorists view racial attitudes through a conflict perspective that suggests racism and prejudice is rooted in different social positions between groups.<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/scholar.harvard.edu\/bobo\">Bobo, Lawrence<\/a>. 1999. \u00a0\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/0022-4537.00127\/full\">Prejudice as Group Position: Microfoundations of a Sociological\u00a0Approach to Racism and Race Relations<\/a>.\u201d \u00a0<em>Journal of Social Issues.<\/em> \u00a055(3): 445-72.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shopping while black is not a crime, but what happens when a store assumes the customer is always white? ColorofChange.org has created a petition urging the NYPD to conduct a full investigation into over 50 arrests of young people, predominantly of color, outside of major department stores like Barney\u2019s and Macy\u2019s. Why hasn\u2019t the \u201cshop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1956,"featured_media":493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124,13,14],"tags":[131,38541,38542],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-inequality","category-race","tag-economy","tag-inequality","tag-race"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/files\/2013\/11\/4892966926_5874235fdf_z.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1956"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions\/83"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}