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  • - Value in Creative Careers
    by Alison Gerber
    £19.49 - 71.99

  • - How Data Is Colonizing Human Life and Appropriating It for Capitalism
    by Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias
    £23.99 - 92.99

    The driving force behind The Costs of Connection is the idea that something big is happening with data, a new phase of colonial extraction that is annexing human life to capitalism and in the process building a new social economic order - one that must be resisted if human autonomy is to be protected.

  • - Embracing Financial Self-Help in the United States and Argentina
    by Daniel Fridman
    £19.49 - 78.49

  • - Community and Inequality in Comedy
    by Michael P. Jeffries
    £18.49 - 75.49

  • - Morality and Economy in the Life of the Poor
    by Ariel Wilkis
    £20.99 - 85.49

    Originally published in 2013 in Spanish under the title: Las sospechas del dinero: moral y economaia en el mundo popular.

  • - Fantasy, Violence, and Empire in Subic Bay, Philippines
    by Victoria Reyes
    £20.99 - 85.49

    Taking a close look at Subic Bay-former U.S. military base, now a Freeport Zone- Victoria Reyes argues that its defining feature is its ability to elicit multiple meanings: for some, it is a symbol of imperialism and inequality, while for others, it projects utopian visions of wealth and status.

  • - Kenya in the Digital Finance Revolution
    by Sibel Kusimba
    £19.49 - 78.49

  • - Modern Middle-Class Blacks with Credentials and Cash to Spend
    by Cassi Pittman Claytor
    £19.49 - 78.49

    Black Privilege examines what middle-class status buys college-educated Black consumers and how they draw upon consumption as a tool to combat anti-black bias and racial stigma in their daily lives.

  • - Moral Critique in Capitalist Culture
    by Tad Skotnicki
    £22.49 - 85.49

    What the struggle to make consumption ethical reveals about our world.

  • by Patricia A. Banks
    £20.99

    A surprising and fascinating look at how Black culture has been leveraged by corporate America.Open the brochure for the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, and you'll see logos for corporations like American Express. Visit the website for the Apollo Theater, and you'll notice acknowledgments to corporations like Coca Cola and Citibank. The Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial and the National Museum of African American History and Culture, owe their very existence to large corporate donations from companies like General Motors. And while we can easily make sense of the need for such funding to keep cultural spaces afloat, less obvious are the reasons that corporations give to them. In Black Culture, Inc., Patricia A. Banks interrogates the notion that such giving is completely altruistic, and argues for a deeper understanding of the hidden transactions being conducted that render corporate America dependent on Black culture.Drawing on a range of sources, such as public relations and advertising texts on corporate cultural patronage and observations at sponsored cultural events, Banks argues that Black cultural patronage profits firms by signaling that they value diversity, equity, and inclusion. By functioning in this manner, support of Black cultural initiatives affords these companies something called "e;diversity capital,"e; an increasingly valuable commodity in today's business landscape. While this does not necessarily detract from the social good that cultural patronage does, it reveals its secret cost: ethnic community support may serve to obscure an otherwise poor track record with social justice.Banks deftly weaves innovative theory with detailed observations and a discerning critical gaze at the various agendas infiltrating memorials, museums, and music festivals meant to celebrate Black culture. At a time when accusations of discriminatory practices are met with immediate legal and social condemnation, the insights offered here are urgent and necessary.

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