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<p><P>An archaeological analysis of the centrality of race and racism in American culture. Using a broad range of material, historical, and ethnographic resources from Annapolis, Maryland, during the period 1850 to 1930, the author probes distinctive African-American consumption patterns and examines how those patterns resisted the racist assumptions of the dominant culture while also attempting to demonstrate African-Americans' suitability to full citizenship privileges.</p><h3>Booknews</h3><p>Crossing the many studies of the rise of racial ideology and its impact from the middle 19th century well into the 20th, with the many studies of the rise of consumer culture and mass advertising over the same period, Mullins (George Mason U.) investigates how consumer culture was fundamentally structured by race and racism. He argues that race was a social mechanism that ensured that emergent mass markets, public discourses, and economics were never utterly egalitarian, classless, or blind to ethnic and social distinction. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)</p>

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Author

Paul R. Mullins (auth.)

Publisher

Springer US

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9780306471636

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Economics, Anthropology