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The Consumption of Inequality

Weapons of Mass Distraction

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  • © 2013

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  1. Karen Bettez Halnon
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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction Weapons of Mass Distraction

    • Karen Bettez Halnon
    Pages 1-12

  3. Financial Crisis, Ideology, and Alienation

    • Karen Bettez Halnon
    Pages 13-25

  4. Critiquing Postmodernist Zeitgeist

    • Karen Bettez Halnon
    Pages 27-42

  5. Prison Chic

    • Karen Bettez Halnon
    Pages 43-65

  6. Black Ghetto Cool

    • Karen Bettez Halnon
    Pages 67-82

  7. White Trash Stigma

    • Karen Bettez Halnon
    Pages 83-116

  8. Super Trash Spectacles

    • Karen Bettez Halnon
    Pages 117-131

  9. Blue Collar Vogue

    • Karen Bettez Halnon
    Pages 133-149

  10. Redneck and Blue Collar Comedy

    • Karen Bettez Halnon
    Pages 151-169

  11. Conclusion Tourists, Victims, and Deadening Others

    • Karen Bettez Halnon
    Pages 171-187

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 189-229
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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.

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Karen Bettez Halnon is Associate Professor of Sociology at Pennsylvania State University-Abington, USA.

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