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Swiger, Molly J. "Consuming ‘Third World’ Children: Constructing an American Self," American Cultural Studies, Bowling Green State University, December 2000.
This study is concerned with how American people’s depictions of others assist in the constructing of an American Self. Specifically, the study is interested in how the portrayal of “Third World” children, as represented in ads from the sponsorship-organization Christian Children’s Fund, construct Whiteness, and American national identity, and an ideal American parent. The results of the study find that the “Third World” is consistently defined in opposition to America. “Third World” people are constructed in Christian Children’s fund ads as passive, known, powerless, enslaved, primitive, partial, poor, malleable, and neglected. The “Third World” child is constructed as available for reconstruction and “full of promise.” Americans, on the other hand, are constructed as active, knowledgeable, powerful, free, modern, complete, wealthy, influential, and nurturant.
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