Purchasing power : black kids and American consumer culture

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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Main Author: Chin, Elizabeth, 1963-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, 2001
Subjects:
Consumption (Economics) > Connecticut > New Haven.
Purchasing power > Connecticut > New Haven.
African American children > Connecticut > New Haven.
African American consumers > Connecticut > New Haven.
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