APTN InFocus: Are some consumers being targeted by race? (Nov 20, 2018)
Tomee Sojourner-Campbell, M.A., Expert on Consumer Racial Profiling and founder of Prevent Consumer Racial Profiling, was interviewed by APTN journalist and InFocus Host Melissa Ridgen. Melissa
During the interview, Sojourner-Campbell shared her legal research, advocacy, and tips on how to respond if a person is subjected to consumer racial profiling in the “Shopping While Brown” episode.
APTN noted that “Indigenous people responding to our online poll say it happens so frequently it almost feels normal. An overwhelming 89 per cent say they have been racially profiled while shopping in some way – usually by being observed, followed or ignored. Some even say they’ve even been asked to pre-pay for services others have not, which Sojourner-Campbell confirms is a form of consumer racial profiling.”
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Center for the Study of Women: Streisand Center
Youtube Video Date: April 21, 2016. Location: University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Tomee Sojourner-Campbell, M.A., presentation “May I Help You? Disrupting Consumer Spaces at the Intersections: The Impact of Consumer Racial Profiling on Black/African Diasporic Women.” At the time, Tomee spoke at UCLA on Friday, April 8, 2016, she was an Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, LLM Candidate.
Tomee’s presentation took place during the “Implicit Bias and Stereotype Threat” session, at the Thinking Gender: 26th Annual Graduate Student Research Conference, presented by the UCLA Center for the Study of Women, Thinking Gender. It was a public conference highlighting graduate student research on women, sexuality and gender across all disciplines and historical periods.
The UCLA Center for the Study of Women is an internationally recognized center for research on gender, sexuality, and women’s issues.