American dreams in Mississippi : consumers, poverty & culture, 1830-1998
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American dreams in Mississippi : consumers, poverty & culture, 1830-1998
University of North Carolina Press, c1999
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-215) and index
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: cloth ISBN 9780807824795
内容説明
This study demonstrates the important roles that consumer goods and shopping have played in the development of class, race and gender relations in Mississippi from the antebellum era to the 1990s. It uses sources as diverse as store ledgers, blues lyrics and the writings of William Faulkner.
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: pbk ISBN 9780807848067
内容説明
The dreams of abundance, choice, and novelty that have fueled the growth of consumer culture in the United States would seem to have little place in the history of Mississippi--a state long associated with poverty, inequality, and rural life. But as Ted Ownby demonstrates in this innovative study, consumer goods and shopping have played important roles in the development of class, race, and gender relations in Mississippi from the antebellum era to the present. After examining the general and plantation stores of the nineteenth century, a period when shopping habits were stratified according to racial and class hierarchies, Ownby traces the development of new types of stores and buying patterns in the twentieth century, when women and African Americans began to wield new forms of economic power. Using sources as diverse as store ledgers, blues lyrics, and the writings of William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Richard Wright, and Will Percy, he illuminates the changing relationships among race, rural life, and consumer goods and, in the process, offers a new way to understand the connection between power and culture in the American South. |Shows how consumer goods and shopping have played important roles in the development of class, race, and gender relations in Mississippi from the antebellum era to the present-or from the plantation store to Wal-Mart.
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