Black Americans were disproportionately hard hit by the Great Recession and the Covid-19 epidemic/recession. This paper analyses the consumer behaviour of recession-hit black Americans in the pre-pandemic digital world. It shows that the consumer behaviour of black Americans is changing due to digitalization and that the recession is affecting them similarly to other consumers.
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