Ruptures of American Capital : Women of Color Feminism and the Culture of Immigrant Labor.

By: Hong, Grace KyungwonMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2006Copyright date: ©2006Description: 1 online resource (226 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780816697595Subject(s): Feminist theory -- United States | Marginality, Social -- United States | Minority women -- United States -- Economic conditions | Minority women -- United States -- Social conditions | Race discrimination -- United States | Sex discrimination against women -- United StatesGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Ruptures of American Capital : Women of Color Feminism and the Culture of Immigrant LaborDDC classification: 305.48800973 LOC classification: HQ1233 -- .H67 2006ebOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I -- 1. The Possessive Individual and Social Death: The Complex Bind of National Subjectivity -- 2. Histories of the Dispossessed: Property and Domesticity, Segregation and Internment -- Part II -- 3. Bad Workers, Worse Consumers: U.S. Imperialism and the Trouble with Industrial Labor -- 4. Consumerism without Means: Immigrant Workers and the Neocolonial Condition -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
Summary: The Ruptures of American Capital examines women of color feminism and racialized immigrant women's culture in order to argue that race and gender are contradictions within the history of U.S. capital that should be understood as marked by its crises. Interweaving discussion of U.S. political economy with literary analyses, Grace Kyungwon Hong challenges the fetishization of difference that is one of the markers of globalization.
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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I -- 1. The Possessive Individual and Social Death: The Complex Bind of National Subjectivity -- 2. Histories of the Dispossessed: Property and Domesticity, Segregation and Internment -- Part II -- 3. Bad Workers, Worse Consumers: U.S. Imperialism and the Trouble with Industrial Labor -- 4. Consumerism without Means: Immigrant Workers and the Neocolonial Condition -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

The Ruptures of American Capital examines women of color feminism and racialized immigrant women's culture in order to argue that race and gender are contradictions within the history of U.S. capital that should be understood as marked by its crises. Interweaving discussion of U.S. political economy with literary analyses, Grace Kyungwon Hong challenges the fetishization of difference that is one of the markers of globalization.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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