Race and Affluence An Archaeology of African America and Consumer Culture /

• Main Author: Mullins, Paul R. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2002.
• Series: Contributions to Global Historical Archaeology,
• Subjects: Social sciences.; History.; Anthropology.; Archaeology.; Social Sciences.; History, general.
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess

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...

Table of Contents:

• Racializing Consumer Culture
• The Politicization and Politics of African-American Consumption
• Material and Symbolic Racism in Consumer Space
• ỚSProducers as Well as ConsumersỚ<U+00fd>
• Moralizing Work and Materialism
• Modes of Consumption
• Affluent Aspiration
• Double Consciousness, Whiteness, and Consumer Culture.