The ruptures of American capital : women of color, feminism and the culture of immigrant labor / Grace Kyungwon Hong.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hong, Grace Kyungwon.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Minority women--United States--Economic conditions.

Minority women.

Minority women--United States--Social conditions.

Marginality, Social--United States.

Marginality, Social.

Sex discrimination against women--United States.

Sex discrimination against women.

Race discrimination--United States.

Race discrimination.

Feminist theory--United States.

Feminist theory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (226 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-9759-0

OCLC:

476096066