TY  - BOOK
AU  - O'Malley,Michael
TI  - Face Value: the Entwined Histories of Money and Race in America
AV  - E185 .O44 2012 
U1  - 332.497308996073 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Public opinion
KW  - History
KW  - Equality
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - Monetary policy
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Money
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - Race relations
KW  - Business
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
KW  - Money & Monetary Policy
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. This New Black Flesh Coin; 2. Banking on Slavery; 3. Rags, Blacking, and Paper Soldiers; 4. Gold Money and the Constitution of Man; 5. A Bank in Human Form; Epilogue: Words and Bonds; Notes; Index
N2  - 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 & mdash;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 & rsquo;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
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