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Skin trade / Ann duCille.
Van Pelt Library E185.615 .D78 1996
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- DuCille, Ann.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Marketing--Social aspects.
- United States--Race relations.
- United States.
- Race relations.
- Marketing--Social aspects--United States.
- Marketing.
- Popular culture--United States.
- Popular culture.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 211 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1996.
- Summary:
- Even as intellectuals and politicians posit the declining significance of race, 'racial difference' remains America's preeminent national narrative. It may defy definition; it may exist only in the minds of maddening (if not mad) scientists and Social Darwinists; it may be an empty category, a slippery concept, a social construction, a trope. But whatever it is, race not only matters in the United States, it also has become - as in the days of slavery - both a commercial dividend and a continental divide.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0674810813
- OCLC:
- 34623514
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