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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784112103321

Autore

Hong Grace Kyungwon

Titolo

The ruptures of American capital [[electronic resource] ] : women of color, feminism and the culture of immigrant labor / / Grace Kyungwon Hong

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, Minn. ; ; London, : University of Minnesota Press, 2006

ISBN

0-8166-9759-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (226 p.)

Disciplina

305.48800973

Soggetti

Minority women - United States - Economic conditions

Minority women - United States - Social conditions

Marginality, Social - United States

Sex discrimination against women - United States

Race discrimination - United States

Feminist theory - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.