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Purchasing power : black kids and American consumer culture /

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-clas...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Chin, Elizabeth, 1963-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, ©2001.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xiii, 258 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-245) and index.
ISBN:9780816691173
0816691177