Includes bibliographical references (pages [153]-167) and index.
Contents:
Theorizing racial consumption -- Ethnic appropriateness : white nostalgia and Nordic noir -- Engaging whiteness : black nerds -- The taste of race : authenticity and food cultures -- Race and children : from anthropomorphism to zoomorphism -- Animals and plants : natural gardening and non-native species -- Stories about race : knowledge and form.
Summary:
"From the products we buy to the television we watch, new media, books, food, design, toys and games, plants, animals and landscapes are all saturated with racial meanings. By consuming race in these various forms, we make sense of other groups and cultures, communicate our own identities, express our needs and desires, and discover new ways of thinking and being. This book explores how the meanings of race are made and remade in acts of creative consumption. Ranging across the terrain of popular culture, and finding race in some unusual and unexpected places, it offers fresh and innovative ways of thinking about the centrality of race to our lives. Consuming Race provides an accessible and highly readable overview of the latest research and a detailed reading of a diverse range of objects, sites and practices. It gives students of sociology, media and cultural studies the opportunity to make connections between academic debates and their own everyday practices of consumption"-- Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.