ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses methodology used in compiling the author's data. It discusses the each racial grouping and its associated toys; through doing so, the author's are by no means trying to add any validity to the subjective classifications. The chapter also discusses the physical and cultural representations of the objects, as well as the White fears manifested in each non-White race. In industrial capitalism, manufacturers are quick to capitalize on movements within popular culture, defined as the beliefs and practices shared widely among a particular population, including the material objects through which they are organized and manifest themselves. Mechanical banks were very popular in Victorian America, and were 'a peculiarly American phenomenon'. The modern American toy making industry began in Vermont at the beginning of the nineteenth century with the manufacture of wooden carts, sleds, and wagons for children, although the mass production of tin toys in the United States had begun in the eighteenth century.
