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Author Chin, Elizabeth, 1963-

Title Purchasing power [electronic resource] : black kids and American consumer culture / Elizabeth Chin.

Imprint Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, c2001.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xiii, 258 p. : ill.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-245) and index.
Contents Machine generated contents note: 1. Consumption in Context 1 --2. The Shadow of Whiteness 27 --3. "What Are You Looking At, You White People?" 63 --4. Hemmed In and Shut Out 91 --5. Anthropologist Takes Inner-City Children on Shopping Sprees 117 --6. Ethnically Correct Dolls: Toying with the Race Industry 143 --Conclusion 175 --Afterword: The Return to the Scene of the Crime 181 --Appendixes 207 --Notes 227 --Bibliography 235 --Index 247.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Consumption (Economics) -- Connecticut -- New Haven.
Purchasing power -- Connecticut -- New Haven.
African American children -- Connecticut -- New Haven.
African American consumers -- Connecticut -- New Haven.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0816635102 (HC : acid-free paper)
0816635110 (PB : acid-free paper)

 
    
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