Investigating Customer Racial Discrimination in the Secondary Baseball Card Market

Sociological Inquiry

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 110-132

  Primm, Eric ^a   Piquero, Nicole Leeper ^b   Piquero, Alex R ^b   Regoli, Robert M ^c  

^a Pikeville College   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; BASEBALL; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; HISPANIC; HISTORY; HUMAN; HUMAN CHARACTERISTIC; LEGAL ASPECT; MARKETING; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SKIN PIGMENTATION; SOCIAL PROBLEM; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL STATUS; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; BASEBALL; COMMERCE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMAN CHARACTERISTICS; HUMANS; MARKETING; PREJUDICE; RACE RELATIONS; SKIN PIGMENTATION; SOCIAL CONDITIONS; SOCIAL PROBLEMS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78651103063     PISSN: 00380245     EISSN: 1475682X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-682X.2010.00360.x     Document Type: Article

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