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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816715803321

Autore

Davis James C

Titolo

Commerce in Color [[electronic resource] ] : Race, Consumer Culture, and American Literature, 1893-1933

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor, : University of Michigan Press, 2010

ISBN

1-282-59772-8

9786612597725

0-472-02607-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (309 p.)

Collana

Class : Culture

Disciplina

810.9/3553

Soggetti

African American consumers -- Social conditions

American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism

Consumption (Economics) in literature

Material culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century

Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century

Racism in popular culture

American literature - History and criticism - 20th century - United States

Consumption (Economics) in literature - History - 20th century - United States

Material culture - History - 20th century

Popular culture - Social conditions

African American consumers

American Literature

English

Languages & Literatures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; 1. No Place of Race: Consumer Culture's Critical Tradition; 2. ""Stage Business"" as Citizenship: Ida B. Wells at the World's Columbian Exposition; 3. Thrown into Relief: Distinction Making in The American Scene; 4. Race-changes as Exchanges: The Autobiography of an Ex-coloured Man; 5. A Black Culture Industry:



Public Relations and the ""New Negro"" at Boni and Liveright; 6. Confessions of the Flesh: The Mass Public in Epidermal Trouble in Nathanael West's Miss Lonelyhearts and George Schuyler's Black No More; Conclusion: Leaving Muncie; Notes; Bibliography; Index