Purchasing Power : Black Kids and American Consumer Culture /

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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
Autor principal: Chin, Elizabeth, 1963-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, 2001.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Purchasing power.
Consumption (Economics)
African American consumers.
African American children.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Consumer Behavior.
Consommateurs noirs americains > Connecticut > New Haven.
Enfants noirs americains > Connecticut > New Haven.
Pouvoir d'achat > Connecticut > New Haven.
African American consumers > Connecticut > New Haven.
African American children > Connecticut > New Haven.
Purchasing power > Connecticut > New Haven.
Consumption (Economics) > Connecticut > New Haven.
Connecticut > New Haven.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
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 (280 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780816691173

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