@article{ref1,
title="New Commodities, New Consumers",
journal="Ethnicities",
year="2006",
author="Collins, Patricia Hill",
volume="6",
number="3",
pages="297-317",
abstract="Because current literature on globalization largely neglects racism, it fails to explain the experiences of contemporary African American youth within the new racialized social class formations of globalization. I suggest that because African American youth live within the borders of the sole remaining world super-power, their experiences might shed light on social class relations of advanced capitalism as refracted through the lens of race, gender, age and sexuality. First, I investigate how shifting the focus of class analysis from production to consumption sheds light on how African American youth participate in a reconfigured black body politics that is increasingly aligned with the ever expanding consumer markets of advanced capitalism. Second, I use the sex work industry as a template for examining how young African American women and men participate in new forms of commodification that sell blackness in the global marketplace.<p />",
language="",
issn="1468-7968",
doi="10.1177/1468796806068322",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1468796806068322"
}