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Face Value (Paperback)
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Face Value (Paperback)
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From colonial history to the present, Americans have passionately,
even violently, debated the nature and the character of money. They
have painted it and sung songs about it, organized political
parties around it, and imprinted it with the name of God - all the
while wondering: is money a symbol of the value of human work and
creativity, or a symbol of some natural, intrinsic value? In "Face
Value", Michael O'Malley provides a deep history and a penetrating
analysis of American thinking about money and the ways that this
ambivalence unexpectedly intertwines with race. Like race, money is
bound up in questions of identity and worth, each a kind of
shorthand for the different values of two similar things. O'Malley
illuminates how these two socially constructed hierarchies are
deeply rooted in American anxieties about authenticity and
difference. In this compelling work of cultural history, O'Malley
interprets a stunning array of historical sources to evaluate the
comingling of ideas about monetary value and social distinctions.
More than just a history, "Face Value" offers us a new way of
thinking about the present culture of coded racism, gold fetishism,
and economic uncertainty.
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