Things we worried about:
Would a white or Asian participant, for example, intrude on the atmosphere of a store where there are mostly black clientele? If a certain barbershop is a place people come to let their guard down, to get a break from the microaggressions directed at them every day, would the project wreck that atmosphere of ease?
Black business owners in Pittsburgh said that they were used to all kinds of customers coming in and surmised that if there were discomfort, it would be on the part of a white person. (This proved to be the case.)
- if participants brought up One Large, whether the business owner would feel patronized, objectified, romanticized (we expect some felt all of these things, and more)
- the border between public and private (even in a public business)
Would a white or Asian participant, for example, intrude on the atmosphere of a store where there are mostly black clientele? If a certain barbershop is a place people come to let their guard down, to get a break from the microaggressions directed at them every day, would the project wreck that atmosphere of ease?
Black business owners in Pittsburgh said that they were used to all kinds of customers coming in and surmised that if there were discomfort, it would be on the part of a white person. (This proved to be the case.)
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