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Purchasing Power
What does it mean to be young, poor, and black in our consumer culture? Are black children "brand-crazed consumer addicts" willing to kill each other over a pair of the latest Nike Air Jordans or Barbie backpack? In this first in-depth account of the consumer lives of poor and working-class black children, Elizabeth Chin enters the world of children living in hardship in order to understand the ways they learn to manage living poor in a wealthy society. To move beyond the stereotypical images of black children obsessed with status symbols, Chin spent two years interviewing poor children in New Haven, Connecticut, about where and how they spend their money. An alternate image of the children ...
My Life with Things
Unconventional and provocative, My Life with Things is Elizabeth Chin's meditation on her relationship with consumer goods and a critical statement on the politics and method of anthropology. Chin centers the book on diary entries that focus on everyday items—kitchen cabinet knobs, shoes, a piano—and uses them to intimately examine the ways consumption resonates with personal and social meaning: from writing love haikus about her favorite nail polish and discussing the racial implications of her tooth cap, to revealing how she used shopping to cope with a miscarriage and contemplating how her young daughter came to think that she needed Lunesta. Throughout, Chin keeps Karl Marx and his family's relationship to their possessions in mind, drawing parallels between Marx's napkins, the production of late nineteenth-century table linens, and Chin's own vintage linen collection. Unflinchingly and refreshingly honest, Chin unlocks the complexities of her attachments to, reliance on, and complicated relationships with her things. In so doing, she prompts readers to reconsider their own consumption, as well as their assumptions about the possibilities for creative scholarship.
Representing Youth
How should a six year-old be approached for an interview? What questions and topics are appropriate for 12 year olds? Do parents need to give their approval for all studies? This work features essays on the subject of youth that address these concerns, providing scholars with practical answers to their many methodological concerns.
An Unexpected Minority
Racial and ethnic minority groups in the United States have been growing rapidly in recent decades. Projections based on census data indicate that, in coming years, white people will statistically dominate noticeably fewer regions and public spaces. How will this reversal of minority status affect ideas about race? In spaces dominated by people of color, will attitudes about white privilege change? Or, will deeply rooted beliefs about racial inequality be resilient to numerical shifts in strength? In An Unexpected Minority, sociologist Edward Morris addresses these far-reaching questions by exploring attitudes about white identity in a Texas middle school composed predominantly of African Am...
Home Possessions
Although so much of the life we care about takes place at home, this private space often remains behind closed doors and is notoriously difficult for researchers to infiltrate. We may think it is just up to us to decorate, transform and construct our homes, but in this book we discover a new form of ‘estate agency', the active participation of the home and its material culture in the construction of our lives. What do the possessions people choose to take with them when moving say about who they are, and should we emphasize the mobility of a move or the stability of what movers take with them? How is the home an active partner in developing relationships? Why are our homes sometimes haunte...
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Finding Hope for Tomorrow
Can be read as a standalone. Focusing on the present can numb the pain of the past. Concentrating on work and family keeps Liam Broun right on track. After all, if his mind wanders, he’s haunted by a series of guilt-ridden what ifs. When Elizabeth Pittman slams into his life on a cold, snowy day, his focus shifts. Embracing the future is the only way to escape the past. Despite the pain of her past, Elizabeth has no intention of giving up on life or love. One day, her Prince Charming will sweep her off her feet. When she encounters Liam on an icy sidewalk, she soon learns God works in mysterious ways. When a voice from the very past Liam tries to ignore storms back into his life, fear and guilt rise to the surface. With more questions than answers, can Elizabeth help him find forgiveness and show him a tomorrow filled with hope? Life. Love. Healing. Hope.
Educating Elizabeth
When Miss Elizabeth Waterstone encounters the enigmatic Duke of Diable Delamere in the most shocking of circumstances, she is determined to exploit his rakish expertise to the fullest extent. The duke agrees to teach her everything she needs to know, but in return expects to receive her unwitting cooperation to uncover an assassination plot against the monarchy. But Elizabeth is hard to deceive, and the duke finds himself needing more than her innocent skills in his bed. Together they must use their remarkable abilities, to thwart a villain, save the Prince Regent and accidentally and inevitably fall in love.
Sundancer's Woman
"Sheer, unadulterated pleasure. . ..Written from the heart." --Jennifer Blake A Mother's Sacrifice Ruthlessly kidnapped, Elizabeth Fleming has endured nine years as an English slave to a Seneca warrior. Only devotion to her two small children, fathered in captivity, have brought her comfort. But now, a handsome stranger has come to free her—whether she wants it or not. For her son and daughter must stay behind. Elizabeth can only hope the man is as kind as he is bold—and that the desire he awakens in her does not divert her from her course. . . A Woman's Heart More Indian than white, Hunt Campbell was sure that rescuing Elizabeth was a fool's errand. She'd no longer be the girl her father remembered. And he was right. Elizabeth was a grown woman—more courageous and beautiful than Hunt imagined. And more stubborn. For after one thrilling, intimate night together, Elizabeth flees to save her children. But now Hunt knows it is his destiny to risk his life for her mission—and her love. . . "A masterful storyteller." --Rendezvous 150,000 Words
