Elizabeth J. Chin Copyright (c) 2013 All rights reserved. http://works.bepress.com/elizabeth_chin Recent documents in Elizabeth J. Chin en-us Fri, 04 Jan 2013 11:30:45 PST 3600 Diary Excerpts: “Shopping in Ikea” and “Capitalism Makes Me Sick" http://works.bepress.com/elizabeth_chin/18 http://works.bepress.com/elizabeth_chin/18 Thu, 18 Nov 2010 14:10:28 PST Elizabeth J. Chin Anthropology Toward a Documentation of the Consumer Lives of Inner City Children http://works.bepress.com/elizabeth_chin/17 http://works.bepress.com/elizabeth_chin/17 Thu, 18 Nov 2010 14:05:44 PST Elizabeth J. Chin Anthropology Learning about What Kids Buy http://works.bepress.com/elizabeth_chin/16 http://works.bepress.com/elizabeth_chin/16 Thu, 18 Nov 2010 14:03:06 PST Elizabeth J. Chin Anthropology Hemmed In and Shut Out: Urban Minority Kids, Consumption and Social Inequality in New Haven http://works.bepress.com/elizabeth_chin/15 http://works.bepress.com/elizabeth_chin/15 Thu, 18 Nov 2010 14:01:02 PST Elizabeth J. Chin Anthropology Social Inequality and Servicescape: Local Groceries and Downtown Stores in New Haven, Connecticut http://works.bepress.com/elizabeth_chin/14 http://works.bepress.com/elizabeth_chin/14 Thu, 18 Nov 2010 13:58:56 PST Elizabeth J. Chin Anthropology Ethnically correct dolls: Toying with the race industry http://works.bepress.com/elizabeth_chin/13 http://works.bepress.com/elizabeth_chin/13 Thu, 18 Nov 2010 13:44:02 PST The toy industry has touted ethnically correct dolls as a progressive solution to representation and inclusion in the toy box, and in children's lives. Contrasting a case study of Mattel's Shani dolls with an ethnographic look at race and commodities among New Haven CT kids, Chin locates children's consumption within the context of social inequality.

]]> Elizabeth J. Chin Anthropology Purchasing Power : Black Kids and American Consumer Culture http://works.bepress.com/elizabeth_chin/12 http://works.bepress.com/elizabeth_chin/12 Thu, 18 Nov 2010 13:39:48 PST Elizabeth J. Chin Anthropology Feminist Theory and the Ethnography of Children's Worlds: Barbie in New Haven, Connecticut http://works.bepress.com/elizabeth_chin/11 http://works.bepress.com/elizabeth_chin/11 Thu, 18 Nov 2010 13:32:13 PST Elizabeth J. Chin Anthropology Children out of Bounds in Globalising Times http://works.bepress.com/elizabeth_chin/10 http://works.bepress.com/elizabeth_chin/10 Thu, 18 Nov 2010 13:27:35 PST Elizabeth J. Chin Anthropology Diary Excerpts: How to Teach Commodity Fetishism and My Grandmother’s Rings http://works.bepress.com/elizabeth_chin/9 http://works.bepress.com/elizabeth_chin/9 Thu, 18 Nov 2010 13:24:01 PST Elizabeth J. Chin Anthropology Action Research in the Classroom: A Case Study from New Haven, Connecticut http://works.bepress.com/elizabeth_chin/8 http://works.bepress.com/elizabeth_chin/8 Thu, 18 Nov 2010 13:22:09 PST Elizabeth J. Chin Anthropology African American Consumption http://works.bepress.com/elizabeth_chin/7 http://works.bepress.com/elizabeth_chin/7 Wed, 17 Nov 2010 15:52:22 PST Elizabeth J. Chin Anthropology Children as Native Anthropologists http://works.bepress.com/elizabeth_chin/6 http://works.bepress.com/elizabeth_chin/6 Wed, 17 Nov 2010 15:41:35 PST Elizabeth J. Chin Anthropology Confessions of a Negrophile http://works.bepress.com/elizabeth_chin/5 http://works.bepress.com/elizabeth_chin/5 Wed, 17 Nov 2010 15:37:35 PST A personal reflection on the difficulties of being an Asian American who works on and lives with Blackness, this article seeks to describe and explore my own experiences while also examining the ways in which contemporary U.S. culture-as well as anthropology itself-continues to construct Asian and Black as opposed and dichotomous.

]]> Elizabeth J. Chin Anthropology Ethnically Correct Dolls: Toying with the Race Industry http://works.bepress.com/elizabeth_chin/4 http://works.bepress.com/elizabeth_chin/4 Wed, 17 Nov 2010 15:27:18 PST Elizabeth J. Chin Anthropology Fostering a Community-Based Learning Culture: A Model for Success and Institutional Barriers http://works.bepress.com/elizabeth_chin/3 http://works.bepress.com/elizabeth_chin/3 Wed, 17 Nov 2010 15:09:54 PST This article offers a case study in Community-Based Learning by describing a collaborative gang-intervention effort developed for children in Los Angeles. Project GOLD (Goal Oriented Life Decisions), is an educational-intervention effort designed by representatives from Occidental College, Garvanza Elementary School, the LAPD, and the Los Angeles City Attorney's Office and implemented in the elementary school. Both authors are directly involved with the program and offer a first-hand description of the project. They also detail some of the obstacles and barriers to the program's sustainability. Even as Community-Based Learning (CBL) has become more acceptable and its value as a pedagogical approach is gaining attention, Project GOLD remains vulnerable because the resources are not yet there. Project GOLD and efforts like it will only truly succeed when CBL becomes institutionalized in colleges and universities, releasing professors and students into communities with the resources and support necessary for long-term success.

]]> Elizabeth J. Chin et al. Anthropology The Consumer Diaries, or, Autoethnography in the Inverted World http://works.bepress.com/elizabeth_chin/2 http://works.bepress.com/elizabeth_chin/2 Wed, 17 Nov 2010 15:04:51 PST Using the form of an ethnographic diary, this article explores the complexity of contemporary consumer life as it is enmeshed with everyday experience. Built around three ethnographic diary entries that track the author's miscarriage, the article's aim is to insist on the humanity of consumption even as it poses profound problems. Scholars and scholarship are not exempt from suffering the very problems we seek to analyze. To further this point, this article also explores aspects of the consumer lives of Karl Marx and his wife Jenny, showing how even for them, negotiating the demands of commodity capitalism was complex, contradictory, and painful.

]]> Elizabeth J. Chin Anthropology Cultivating the Teaching Moment http://works.bepress.com/elizabeth_chin/1 http://works.bepress.com/elizabeth_chin/1 Wed, 17 Nov 2010 14:45:38 PST Elizabeth J. Chin Anthropology