Format:
Online-Ressource (xiii, 258 p)
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ill
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2007 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0816635110
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0816635102
Content:
What does it mean to be young, poor, and black in our consumer culture? Are black children "brand-crazed consumer addicts" willing to kill each other over a pair of the latest Nike Air Jordans or Barbie backpack? In this first in-depth account of the consumer lives of poor and working-class black children, Elizabeth Chin enters the world of children living in hardship in order to understand the ways they learn to manage living poor in a wealthy society
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-245) and index
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Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Consumption in Context; 2. The Shadow of Whiteness; 3. ""What Are You Looking At, You White People?""; 4. Hemmed In and Shut Out; 5. Anthropologist Takes Inner-City Children on Shopping Sprees; 6. Ethnically Correct Dolls: Toying with the Race Industry; Conclusion; Afterword: The Return to the Scene of the Crime; Appendixes; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780816635108
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Purchasing Power : Black Kids and American Consumer Culture
Language:
English
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