Topic

Title: “A ‘Side’ of Racism:” An Observation of racial profiling through everyday transactions in restaurants.

Bibliography:

Brewster, Z.W., & Rusche, S.N.

2012. Quantitative Evidence of the Continuing Significance of Race: Tableside Racism in Fill-Service Restaurants. Journal of Black Studies, 43, 359.

Bodvarsson, O., & Gibson, W.

1999. An Economic approach to tips and service quality: Results of a survey. Social Science Journal, 36(1/2), 41-64.

Bonilla-Silva, E., & Forman, T.A.

2000. I am not a racist but…: Mapping White college students’ racial ideology in the USA. Discourse and Society, 11(1), 50-85.

Brewster, Z. W., & Mallinson, C.

2009. Racial differences in restaurant tipping: A labour process perspective. Service Industries Journal, 29(8), 1053-1075.

Brewster, Z. W.

2011. Racialized customer service in restaurants: A quantitative assessment of the statistical discrimination explanatory framework. Sociological Inquiry.

Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor.

                2008. Food services and Drinking Places. Retrieved from http://www.bls.gov/

Carton,S. & Kleiner, B.H.

                2001. Discrimination in the restaurant industry. Equal Opportunities International, 20, 128-132.

Elevator Pitch:

                The context of full-service restaurants can be considered as the setting where racial prejudices and discriminatory treatments can be found. Regardless of the claims that racism and discrimination are no longer prominent issues in today’s society, members of racially underrepresented groups continue to experience unequal treatment in everyday public interactions such as restaurants. There have been findings that servers have acted negatively towards different races (African Americans, Hispanics, Indians, etc).

   

Theory:

                The theoretical approach that I will be using is the view of labor and how labor affects culture.  I will discuss Marcel Mauss with his theory of elemental categories and total facts; Bronislaw Malinowski with his theory of the functions of culture; and A.R. Radcliffe-Brown with the theory about the structures of society.