The Mass Consumption Society and Gender, Race, and Class in the 20 century America

2004年和2005年，我利用报纸、文章和加州政府的各种官方文件，对20世纪洛杉矶的消费文化进行了研究。同时，我参与了美国消费文化史的撰写项目，在2004年和2005年，我通过分析报纸、文章和加州政府的各种官方文件，对20世纪洛杉矶的消费文化进行了研究。与此同时，我参与了撰写美国消费文化史的项目。由于这个项目，我们出版了一本书，我成为编辑之一。在这本书中，我写了一章关于世纪早期大众消费社会的发展。正是由于这一资助，我才得以对各种材料进行分析，并得出结论：大众消费社会发展了美国社会的性别、阶级和种族分化，而消费则构建了同质社会的理想。这本书将于2007年8月出版。在本书中，我以世纪初的洛杉矶为中心，明确了美国化运动将美国公民身份的先决条件定义为获得“美国生活方式”或“美国生活标准”的能力。换句话说，新来者需要了解如何成为好的消费者，才能成为好的美国人。此外，本土主义运动和种族隔离也利用消费文化来证明某些种族群体不能成为美国公民。因此，为期三年的研究阐明了消费文化和美国人的日常生活是如何发展国家认同的。

In 2004 and 2005, I made a research on the consumer culture in the 20century Los Angeles using newspapers, articles and various official papers of California State Government. At the same time, I participated in the project of writing the history of American consumer culture.In 2004 and 2005, I made a research on the consumer culture in the 20century Los Angeles analyzing newspapers, articles and various official papers of California State Government. At the same time, I participated in the project of writing the history of American consumer culture. As a result of this project, we published a book and I became one of editors. In this book, I wrote a chapter concerning the development of the mass consumer society in the early twentieth century. Owing to this grant, I could analyze various materials and concluded that the mass consumption society developed the differentiation in terms of gender, class and race in American society while the consumption constructed the ideal of homogeneous society.In 2006, I prepared for publishing a book on the relationship between consumer culture and the construction of American identity. This book will be published in August, 2007. In this book, I focused on Los Angeles in the early twentieth century and make it clear that the Americanization movement defined the prerequisites of American citizenship as the ability of acquiring "the American way of life" or "the American standard of living". In other words, newcomers needed to understand how they can be good consumers in order to become good Americans. Furthermore, nativistic movements and racial segregation also used the consumer culture in order to prove that some racial groups could not become American citizens. Thus, three-year research illuminate how consumer culture and every day lives of Americans developed the national identity.