The New American Servitude Political Belonging among African Immigrant Home Care Workers / Cati Coe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coe, Cati, author.

Series:

Anthropologies of American medicine. Culture, power, and practice.

NYU scholarship online.

Anthropologies of American medicine

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Home care services.

Foreign workers, African.

Caregivers.

Foreign workers, African--United States.

Caregivers--United States.

Home care services--United States.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (221 pages).

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : New York University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In our contemporary period of human mobility and global capitalism, political identifications are being configured in multiple sites beyond the nation-state. The text's theoretical innovation is to analyze what happens at work in terms of larger processes of political belonging. In particular, it examines how the recognitions and reciprocities entailed by care work affect the political belonging of new African migrants in the United States.

Contents:

5. A Lack of Reciprocity: Wages, Benefits, and Contingent EmploymentInterlude: Foreclosure; Conclusion: Recognition and Belonging through Care; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; Index; About the Author

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction; Interlude: Food; 1. "Anyone Who Is Not African": The Racialization of the Care Workforce; Interlude: Silences about Servants; 2. Stories of Servitude: Racial Slurs, Humiliating Insults, and the Exercise of Power; Interlude: Longing for a House; 3. Making and Breaking Practical Kinship: Affectionate Names, Social Occasions, and the End of Life; Interlude: Playing Tennis; 4. Reciprocity: Who Deserves What, and on What Grounds?; Interlude: Intangible Gifts at the End of Life

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Also issued in print: 2019.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4798-5092-6

OCLC:

1086610922