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Author:

Chin, Elizabeth, 1963-

Title:

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

Publisher:

University of Minnesota Press,

Copyright Date:

c2001

Description:

xiii, 258 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Consumption (Economics)--New Haven.--New Haven.
Purchasing power--New Haven.--New Haven.
African American children--New Haven.--New Haven.
African American consumers--New Haven.--New Haven.
Consommation (Économie politique)--New Haven.--New Haven.
Pouvoir d'achat--New Haven.--New Haven.
Enfants noirs américains--New Haven.--New Haven.
Consommateurs noirs américains--New Haven.--New Haven.

Notes:

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

Contents:

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. Appendix A: Selected household characteristics of main study group ; Appendix B: This is our community and this is what we think: kids as collaborators in anthropological research / Natalia Brooks... [et al.] ; Appendix C: Project interview for children's oral history project.

ISBN:

9780816635115 (PB : acid-free paper)
0816635110 (PB : acid-free paper)
9780816635108 (HC : acid-free paper)
0816635102 (HC : acid-free paper)

LCCN:

00012081

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

URAX314 -- Clarke University - Nicholas J. Schrup Library (Dubuque)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)

PMAX975 -- Morningside University - Hickman-Johnson-Furrow Library (Sioux City)