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Consuming Race.

By: Material type: TextPublisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (189 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781136238178
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 305.8
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Contents:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Theorizing racial consumption -- 3 Ethnic appropriateness: white nostalgia and Nordic noir -- 4 Engaging whiteness: black nerds -- 5 The taste of race: authenticity and food cultures -- 6 Race and children: from anthropomorphism to zoomorphism -- 7 Animals and plants: natural gardening and non-native species -- 8 Stories about race: knowledge and form -- 9 Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: This book explores how the meanings of race are made and remade in everyday acts of consumption: it is through the consumption of products, TV, new media, books, food, design, toys and games, plants, animals and landscapes that we make sense of ourselves and others.
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Theorizing racial consumption -- 3 Ethnic appropriateness: white nostalgia and Nordic noir -- 4 Engaging whiteness: black nerds -- 5 The taste of race: authenticity and food cultures -- 6 Race and children: from anthropomorphism to zoomorphism -- 7 Animals and plants: natural gardening and non-native species -- 8 Stories about race: knowledge and form -- 9 Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

This book explores how the meanings of race are made and remade in everyday acts of consumption: it is through the consumption of products, TV, new media, books, food, design, toys and games, plants, animals and landscapes that we make sense of ourselves and others.

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