Purchasing power

Chin, Elizabeth, 1963-

Purchasing power black kids and American consumer culture / [electronic resource] : Elizabeth Chin. - Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, c2001. - xiii, 258 p. : ill.

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

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.


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Consumption (Economics)--Connecticut--New Haven.
Purchasing power--Connecticut--New Haven.
African American children--Connecticut--New Haven.
African American consumers--Connecticut--New Haven.


Electronic books.

HC107.C8 / C47 2001eb

306.3/089/96073