Purchasing power : black kids and American consumer culture / Elizabeth Chin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chin, Elizabeth, 1963-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Consumption (Economics)--Connecticut--New Haven.

Consumption (Economics).

Purchasing power--Connecticut--New Haven.

Purchasing power.

African American children--Connecticut--New Haven.

African American children.

African American consumers--Connecticut--New Haven.

African American consumers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (274 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-245) and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-9117-7

OCLC:

560185713