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Title: Kid Stuff: Marketing Sex and Violence to America's Children by Diane Ravitch, Joseph P. Viteritti, Daine Ravitch ISBN: 0-8018-7327-4 Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr Pub. Date: 28 May, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: Even-handed, powerful essays on violence, obscenity in US
Comment: The editors, Diane Ravitch and Joseph Viteritti, have gathered together a number of scholars from the humanities and social sciences to consider the question, "Is our popular culture toxic?" Also, "Is it toxic merely to children or adolescents?" These scholars are even-handed in their answers to these questions; critics will not be able to dismiss them with the kind of labels heard on Fox News. Each has assembled existing data and impressions, and has answered questions such as, "What is it like to teach amid the torrent of popular culture?" and "How can one socialize children in a culture of obscenity?" "How much exposure to violence, sex, drugs, and alcohol constitutes a problem?" "What are the lasting effects of controversial music?"
I am a great fan of Diane Ravitch and Joseph Viteritti, based on their previous books, and their edited books. This one is my favorite.
The writers are fluent with their data, so the academic part is easy to read. More important, however, is that the writers describe "what it is like" (the "phenomenology" in academic language) to swim in this sea of obscene popular culture. This makes me think that they have touched the lives of children, and have examined their own experiences in our culture. Finally, even though their findings are largely that the culture has changed for the worse, they are not hysterical. Their recommendations reflect an appropriate course (or set of courses) to take, for lawmakers, educators, parents, guardians, and, yes, even the purveyors of this media blitz of violence and sex. Since nobody has their hands clean, it is good to read these writers.
One part I loved was the author who asked makers of pornography whether they would want their children exposed to it. Their answers reflect a moral compartmentalization, because they make their living from what is so popular and desensitizing, and yet are very ambivalent about having their children see pornography--it is the way the world "is," but not the way they might like their children "see" it.
Great book. This will help frame public dialogue about porn, violence, drugs, and the pond we all have to swim in--the degraded public discourse in our common lives.
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Title: The Betrayal of Work: How Low-Wage Jobs Fail 30 Million Americans and Their Families by Beth Shulman ISBN: 1565847334 Publisher: New Press Pub. Date: 02 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Branded: The Buying and Selling of Teenagers by Alissa Quart ISBN: 0738206644 Publisher: Perseus Publishing Pub. Date: 07 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy by James Paul Gee ISBN: 1403961697 Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Pub. Date: 16 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: What Do You Do with a Tail Like This? by Robin Page, Steve Jenkins ISBN: 0618256288 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 25 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Soul of Capitalism: Opening Paths to a Moral Economy by William Greider ISBN: 0684862190 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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