@article{1468426,
      recid = {1468426},
      author = {Ball, Jared A.,},
      title = {The myth and propaganda of Black buying power : media,  race, economics /},
      publisher = {Palgrave Macmillan,},
      address = {Cham, Switzerland :},
      pages = {1 online resource},
      year = {2023},
      note = {Includes index.},
      abstract = {The second edition of this Palgrave Pivot offers a history  of and proof against claims of "buying power" and the  impact this myth has had on understanding media, race,  class and economics in the United States. For generations  Black people have been told they have what is now said to  be more than one trillion dollars of "buying power," and  this book argues that commentators have misused this claim  largely to blame Black communities for their own poverty  based on squandered economic opportunity. This book exposes  the claim as both a marketing strategy and myth, while also  showing how that myth functions simultaneously as a case  study for propaganda and commercial media coverage of  economics. In sum, while buying power is indeed an economic  and marketing phrase applied to any number of racial,  ethnic, religious, gender, age or group of consumers, it  has a specific application to Black America. A new foreword  by Dr. Darrick Hamilton, Henry Cohen Professor of Economics  and Urban Policy at the New School (in New York, USA), and  a new chapter on cryptocurrencies are included in this new  edition. Dr. Jared A. Ball Professor of Africana and  Communication Studies at Morgan State University in  Baltimore, MD. and host of the iMiXWHATiLiKE! podcast. His  decades of journalism, media, writing, and political work  can be found at imixwhatilike.org. Ball has also been named  as one of 2022s Marguerite Casey Foundations Freedom  Scholars.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1468426},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26549-5},
}