Selling ethnicity
Subtitle: urban cultural politics in the Americas
By: by Olaf Kaltmeier
Series: Heritage, culture, and indentity
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9781409410379; 9781409410386
Subjects: Politics and culture; Indigenous peoples in popular culture; Multiculturalism in mass media; Ethnicity; Ethnic relations
Description: Explores the importance of ethnicity and cultural economy in the post-Fordist city in the Americas. This title shows how ethnic communities are able to use ethnic labelling of cultural production, ethnic economy or ethno-tourism facilities in order to change living conditions and to empower its members in ways previously impossible.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.