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

Published Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, ©2001

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 258 pages) : illustrations Contents 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 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-245) and index Notes Print version record Subject Consumption (Economics) -- Connecticut -- New Haven Purchasing power -- Connecticut -- New Haven African American children -- Connecticut -- New Haven African American consumers -- Connecticut -- New Haven BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Consumer Behavior. African American children African American consumers Consumption (Economics) Purchasing power Connecticut -- New Haven Form Electronic book ISBN 9780816691173 0816691177

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