Excerpt:In 1992, Min found that 61 percent of Korean merchants in black neighborhoods believed that "black people are generally less intelligent than white people," while nearly 70 percent believed that "black people are more criminally oriented than white people." Black customers would complain of merchants following them around, watching for evidence of shoplifting. Korean greengrocers typically hired other Koreans or Latinos rather than local blacks, whom they believed to be poorer workers. Perhaps, too, the grocers realized that Latinos were less likely to report labor-law violations: in spring 2001, Eliot Spitzer, then the state's attorney general, sued three Korean delis for paying their employees, most of them Latino, as little as $2.61 an hour, well below New York's minimum wage.
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