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The consumption of inequality : weapons of mass distraction / Karen Bettez Halnon.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Halnon, Karen Bettez, 1962- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social stratification--United States.
- Social stratification.
- Consumption (Economics)--Social aspects--United States.
- Consumption (Economics).
- Poverty--United States.
- Poverty.
- Consumption (Economics)--Social aspects.
- United States.
- Popular culture--United States.
- Popular culture.
- Physical Description:
- x, 229 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
- Summary:
- The fads, fashions, and media in popular consumer culture frequently make recreational and ideological "fun" of poverty and lower class living. It is a phenomenon that puts poor whites, poor blacks, women, gays, handicapped people, and other traditional minorities back in "their place" by prioritizing self-aggrandizing materialism and individual desires over the collective good and constitutes a form of cultural denial. In this book, Halnon delineates how incarceration, segregation, stigmatization, cultural and social consecration, and carnivalization work in the production and consumption of inequality. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 Financial Crisis, Ideology, and Alienation 13
- 2 Critiquing Postmodernist Zeitgeist 27
- 3 Prison Chic 43
- 4 Black Ghetto Cool 67
- 5 White Trash Stigma 83
- 6 Super Trash Spectacles 117
- 7 Blue Collar Vogue 133
- 8 Redneck and Blue Collar Comedy 151.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781137352484
- 1137352485
- OCLC:
- 831150497
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