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A Seat At The Bar: Issues Of Race And Class In The World Of Specialty Coffee ...
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If you’re in academia, you probably have a very close relationship with coee. For most Americans, coee feels like a necessary part of our day, crucial to our higher-order cognitive functioning. Coee has been a staple in American households and workplaces for over 100 years, and coee as a commodity is one of the most widely traded and protable items on the international market (Pendergrast 1999). In early 19 century, coee served as a strong index for the elite classes of American society. It was expensive, often challenging to obtain, and was consumed primarily within prestigious social circles. However, the increasing reach of white European imperialism and the ne-tuning of the mechanisms of colonial trade and exploitation led to such resources becoming accessible to a wider range of consumers. In less than a century, the notion of coee as a beverage consumed in the drawing rooms of the upper crust eroded. Coee instead became a ubiquitous xture of the American working class, tied to notions of ...
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coffee, anthropology, race, class, linguistic anthropology, specialty coffee,
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URL: https://zenodo.org/record/259481 https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.259481
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Indexicalities Of Class In The Materiality Of Coffee Talk ...
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