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The New American Servitude : Political Belonging among African Immigrant Home Care Workers /

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,...

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Autor principal: Coe, Cati (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, [2019]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a 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 
505 0 |a 5. A Lack of Reciprocity: Wages, Benefits, and Contingent EmploymentInterlude: Foreclosure; Conclusion: Recognition and Belonging through Care; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; Index; About the Author 
520 8 |a 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. 
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