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

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: eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, ©2001.
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