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The Consumption of Inequality

Weapons of Mass Distraction
By:K. Halnon
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9781137352484
eText ISBN:9781137352491
Edition:0
Copyright:2013
Format:Reflowable

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The fads, fashions, and media in popular consumer culture frequently make recreational and ideological "fun" of poverty and lower class living. In this book, Halnon delineates how incarceration, segregation, stigmatization, cultural and social consecration, and carnivalization work in the production and consumption of inequality.