Subject
Research Guides
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Please Don't Steal My Jordans
Wealth and Its Discontents
This guide is intended as a research tool to help you locate background information, books, articles, and internet/web links on issues of wealth, class, status, and consumption in American society.
Background Information Sources
| American Attitudes | REF HN90 .P8 .A527 2005 |
| American Icons | REF E169.1 .A472155 2006 |
| Celebrity Culture Reader | REF CB358 .C45 2006 |
| Consumer Behavior | REF HF5415.32 .B63 2006 |
| Encyclopedia of Children, Adolescents, and the Media(2 vols.) | REF HQ784 .M3 .E53 2007 |
| Encyclopedia of Consumer Brands (3 vols.) | REF HF5415.3 .E527 1994 |
| Encyclopedia of Major Marketing Campaigns(2 vols.) | REF HF5837 .E53 2007 |
| St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture | REF E169.1 .S764 2000 |
| Marketing and Consumer Identity in Multicultural America | REF HF5415.127 .T48 2001 |
| Marketing to the Mindset of Boomers and Their Elders | REF HF5415.127 .M668 2002 |
| Twentieth Century Teen Culture by the Decades | REF HQ799 .U65 .R65 1999 |
Books
Search the library catalog for books on your subject using words or word combinations below, or visit the library’s 2nd floor and browse the following call number ranges: CT, PR, and PS.
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Newspaper, Magazine, and Academic Journal Articles
- Expanded Academic ASAP/InfoTrac: full-text journal, magazine, & newspaper articles.
- CQ Researcher: Provides articles of opposing opinions; use search terms similar to those above.
- LexisNexis: large database of current and archived newspaper articles.
- General Reference Center/Infotrac: full-text journal, magazine, & newspaper articles.
Internet Resources
Several internet resources have been selected below. Additional links are available from the Web Resources page.
- Class Matters
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/national/class/index.html
New York Times series on social class in America - People Like Us
http://www.pbs.org/peoplelikeus
site for PBS documentary on social class in America - New York Social Diary
http://www.nysocialdiary.com
Various aspects of upper-class life in New York - New American Dream
http://www.newdream.org/
organization promoting the responsible consumption and production of goods - Center for a Commercial-Free Childhood
http://www.commercialfreechildhood.org/
organization countering the harmful effects of marketing to children - Don't Buy It
http://pbskids.org/dontbuyit
media literacy website for young people encouraging users to become smart consumers