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008 131025s2014 nyu 001 | eng
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_aPitcher, Ben
245 1 0 _aConsuming race /
_cBen Pitcher.
260 _aAbingdon :
_bRoutledge,
_c2014.
300 _a176 p. :
_bill. b&w ;
_c24 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aCh. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. Theorizing racial consumption -- Ch. 3. Ethnic appropriateness: white nostalgia and Nordic noir -- Ch. 4. Engaging whiteness: black nerds -- Ch. 5. The taste if race: authenticity and food culture -- Ch. 6. Race and children: from anthropomorphism to zoomorphism -- Ch. 7. Animals and plant: natural gardening and non-native species -- Ch. 8. Stories about race: knowledge and form -- Ch. 9. Conclusion.
520 _aExplores how the ideas we have about race are produced and reproduced in everyday acts of consumption, and gives us a new way of thinking about the centrality of race to our lives. It argues that consumption is not a superficial leisure activity, but plays a very important role in shaping our beliefs about others: it is through the products we buy, the games we play, the TV we watch, the restaurants we eat at, the charities we give to and the holidays we take that we make sense of other groups and cultures. It is also through acts of racial consumption that we communicate our own identities, and express our fears and desires. Providing an accessible and highly readable overview of the latest research, an introduction to critical methodologies, and a detailed reading of a range of images, texts, products, sites and artifacts, Consuming Race gives students of sociology, media and cultural studies the opportunity to make connections between academic debates and their own everyday practices of consumption.
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_aAfrican American consumers
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_aConsumers, Black
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_aConsumers
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_aRace
_xSocial aspects
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