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In the decades after World War II, American Jews experienced unprecedented levels of financial mobility. But instead of celebrating the ostensible blessing of prosperity, many American Jews, and Jewish leaders in particular, expressed a good deal of ambivalence over their new ec…

Burning to Be Men? is a study that investigates the role of consumption in the performance, enactment, and pursuit of masculinities in the subculture of ukukhothana. The phenomenon of ukukhothana involves township youths who predominantly come from impoverished economic backgrou…