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1020082
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b774452
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Chin, Elizabeth,1963-
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| Title & Author
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Purchasing power : : black kids and American consumer culture /\ Elizabeth Chin.
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| Publication Statement
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Minneapolis, MN :: University of Minnesota Press,, ©2001.
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1 online resource (xiii, 258 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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0816691177
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: 9780816691173
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0816635102
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0816635110
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9780816635108
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9780816635115
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-245) and index.
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| Contents
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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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| Abstract
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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.
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African American children-- Connecticut-- New Haven.
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African American consumers-- Connecticut-- New Haven.
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Consumption (Economics)-- Connecticut-- New Haven.
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Purchasing power-- Connecticut-- New Haven.
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African American children.
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African American consumers.
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BUSINESS ECONOMICS-- Consumer Behavior.
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Consumption (Economics)
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Purchasing power.
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Connecticut, New Haven.
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| Dewey Classification
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306.3/089/96073
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HC107.C8C47 2001eb
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