Summary Of The End Of Spam Shame

The two essays, Nan Enstad’s “Toxicity and the Consuming Subject” and Sylvie Kim’s “The End of Spam Shame” focus on two drastically separate topics; although there are ways to connect each article. The first author, Nan Enstad, is a professor at University of Wisconsin with a focus in women’s history and popular culture. Author, Sylvie Kim, is an Asian American freelance writer who gets published in a popular Asian American magazine. While both appeal to a specific audience, Enstad and Kim’s essays describe the hardships that repeatedly fall upon a lower socio-economic class, as a result of the capitalist ways of the American society. The authors appeal to a specific audience to expand on each individual argument. Kim’s article is published

Kim describes Spam as “inexpensive” (1) and the perfect food for a family that is trying to make a place in this capitalistic country. America has a way of discriminating against the less fortunate, and in this case discriminating against a cultural food, which America introduced to the Asian culture. This negative connotation that follows Spam needs to be eliminated by people opening their eyes and learning to accept things that are different to them. Enstad states that minorities are at a higher risk for being exposed to toxins in the environment, due to the strategic placement of waste dumps. Landfills, chemical waste plants, and high polluting power plants are continually increasing the toxins being put into our bodies and commodities, with the extent of this toxicity falling upon minority communities. Why is it that these dominant corporations do this, do the lives of a black family mean less than that of the historically more powerful white family? Enstad introduces these facts of discrimination during the pivotal point of a fight for equality, with the Black Lives Matter movement emerging and the reoccurring unfair treatment of African Americans. With the hope for more studies conducted on the affects of toxicity on our bodies, she also hopes for a moral study that provides a deeper look into the unjust ways of powerful corporations. Both essays show how important it is for Americans to take a step back and ponder whether they can let this unfair and unsafe treatment of a group of people continue on with no penalties toward our corrupt capitalist