consumer goods

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• SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
  9/24/2020
  

  Why Supermarkets Are Powerful Flash Points In Racial Politics

  by Tracey Deutsch and James McElroy

  In addition to selling food, grocery stores have also preserved a social order that treats shoppers of different races differently, dispensing hierarchy along with food — and, in fact, creating it.

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• SOURCE: Philadelphia Inquirer
  4/7/2020
  

  Historians Throw Shade at Colorism Conflict in Netflix’s ‘Self Made’ Madam C.J. Walker Series

  Critics of Self Made could not contain their indignation over Walker’s life narrative being twisted into a colorism-fueled cat fight, an early 1900s Real Housewives.

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• 3/27/2020
  

  "Rogue" Manufacturing in China: Past and Present

  by Eugenia Lean

  As China’s economic power grows, global intellectual property might end up looking more and more like the Chinese tradition of shanzhai in the future.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/26/2020
  

  The Power of Purell Compels You!

  The Purellification of America is about sanitation, but it is really about sanity. Fear, control, and the fear that we have no control.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/18/2020
  

  Toilet Paper Takes Center Stage Amid Coronavirus Outbreak

  Be thankful we no longer use corn cobs and rope ends.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian Magazine Online
  11/26/19
  

  A Brief History of the Crock-Pot

  Eighty years after it was patented, the Crock-Pot remains a comforting presence in American kitchens.