Acts of conspicuous compassion : performance culture and American charity practices /
Charity has been a pervasive and influential concept in American culture, and has also served an important ideological purpose, helping people articulate their sense of individual and national identity. But what, exactly, compels our benevolence? In a social moment when countless worthy causes and d...
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University of Michigan Press,
2013
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