American Dreams in Mississippi: Consumers, Poverty, & Culture, 1830-1998Univ of North Carolina Press, 1999 - 228 Seiten 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. |
Inhalt
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
Men Buying Cloth THE LIMITS OF SHOPPING AMONG NINETEENTHCENTURY FARMERS | 7 |
Wealthy Men Wealthy Women and Slaves as Antebellum Consumers | 33 |
You Don t Want Nothing GOODS PLANTATION LABOR AND THE MEANINGS OF FREEDOM 18651920s | 61 |
New Stores and New Shoppers 18801930 | 82 |
Gladys Smith Dorothy Dickins and Consumer Ideals for Women 1920519505 | 98 |
Goods Migration and the Blues 1920819505 | 110 |
Percy Wright Faulkner and Welty MONTGOMERY WARD SNOPES AND THE INTELLECTUAL CHALLENGES OF CONSUMPTION | 130 |
White Christmas BOYCOTTS AND THE MEANINGS OF SHOPPING 19601990 | 149 |
A Fine New Day? | 159 |
NOTES | 171 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 193 |
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