TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2006//
TI  - New Commodities, New Consumers
JO  - Ethnicities
A1  - Collins, Patricia Hill
SP  - 297
EP  - 317
VL  - 6
IS  - 3
N2  - 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 /> 
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SN  - 1468-7968
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1468796806068322
ID  - ref1
ER  -