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A Selected Bibliography on Marketing to African Americans and Hispanics Since the Late 1970s

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Minority Marketing: Research Perspectives for the 1990s

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This research effort reports an identification of selected research references focusing on the buyer behavior patterns of African American and Hispanic consumers published since the late 1970s. Specifically, the bibliographic published literature is sectioned off as data based studies, dissertation studies and published articles.

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Data Base Studies

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Smith, J.R. (2015). A Selected Bibliography on Marketing to African Americans and Hispanics Since the Late 1970s. In: King, R. (eds) Minority Marketing: Research Perspectives for the 1990s. Developments in Marketing Science: Proceedings of the Academy of Marketing Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17386-3_12

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