Courting customers: Assessing consumer racial profiling and other marketplace discrimination

Journal of Public Policy and Marketing

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 163-171

  Harris, Anne Marie G ^a   Henderson, Geraldine R ^b   Williams, Jerome D ^b  

^a SALEM STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

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EID: 20444506078     PISSN: 07439156     EISSN: 15477207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1509/jppm.24.1.163.63893     Document Type: Review

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