Book Review: Shopping While Black: Consumer Racial Profiling in America.

Gabbidon and Higgins, along with other scholars (e.g., [4]), propose that federal courts place an impossibly high legal burden on plaintiffs in discrimination suits. And yet, Gabbidon and Higgins cite legal scholar [8] who notes that federal courts, based on an extremely narrow reading of the 1866 and 1964 Civil Rights Acts, have routinely upheld such behavior or declined to subject it to judicial scrutiny. Gabbidon, Shaun L Higgins, George E Shopping While Black: Consumer Racial Profiling in America, (2020), Routledge: New York, 164pp, ISBN 9780367482244, $44.95 In the early 1990s, when I was an undergraduate at the University of Missouri, I roadtripped to South Dakota as part of a group of 10 or so students. But beyond this review, Gabbidon and Higgins also chart a clear and easy to follow path through the discourse around CRP, which has its roots in the tension between racialized property interests and civic notions of freedom. [Extracted from the article]

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