Virgin capital : race, gender, and financialization in the US Virgin Islands /

Virgin Capital examines the cultural impact and historical significance of the Economic Development Commission (EDC) in the United States Virgin Islands. A tax holiday program, the EDC encourages financial services companies to relocate to these American-owned islands in exchange for an exemption fr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Navarro, Tamisha (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2021]
Temas:
Economic Development Commission (Program : United States Virgin Islands)
2000-2099
Tax havens > United States Virgin Islands > Saint Croix.
Economic development > United States Virgin Islands > Saint Croix.
Financial services industry > United States Virgin Islands > Saint Croix.
Banks and banking, International > United States Virgin Islands > Saint Croix.
Paradis fiscaux > Îles Vierges américaines > Sainte-Croix.
Développement économique > Îles Vierges américaines > Sainte-Croix.
Services financiers > Îles Vierges américaines > Sainte-Croix.
Banques internationales > Îles Vierges américaines > Sainte-Croix.
Banks and banking, International
Economic development
Economic history
Financial services industry
Race relations
Social conditions
Tax havens
Saint Croix (United States Virgin Islands) > Economic conditions > 21st century.
Saint Croix (United States Virgin Islands) > Social conditions > 21st century.
Saint Croix (United States Virgin Islands) > Race relations.
Sainte-Croix (Îles Vierges américaines) > Conditions économiques > 21e siècle.
Sainte-Croix (Îles Vierges américaines) > Conditions sociales > 21e siècle.
Sainte-Croix (Îles Vierges américaines) > Relations raciales.
United States Virgin Islands > Saint Croix
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1 Introduction
  • The Program
  • Spectral Time
  • The "US" in "USVI"
  • On Belonging
  • Reworking Time
  • Methodology
  • Chapter Summaries
  • 2 Into the Field: Navigating Self-Reflexivity at "Home"
  • Becoming a "Nontraditional" Intern
  • "You Is One of We": Positionality in the Field
  • Becoming an "EDC Girl"
  • 3 Spectral Time: Tracing Racial Capitalism in the USVI from Plantation Slavery to the Economic Development Commission
  • Plantation Slavery
  • Beyond a Narrative of Danes as "Progressive" Slaveholders
  • Toward Agricultural Development and Tourism
  • Industrial Development
  • Neoliberal Development
  • 4 The End of an Era: The Shuttering of Stanford Financial
  • 183 Days
  • Quarterly Meetings
  • More of the Same: Stanford Indictment
  • After the End
  • 5 Putting Race to Work: Racialization and Economic Opportunity
  • Local Reaction to the EDC Program
  • Becoming "Business-Friendly"
  • "We" versus "Dem Deh": Shifting Antagonisms
  • A Black Majority: Violence and the EDC
  • White Before EDC: Long-Term White Residents
  • EDC People as "Racist"
  • EDC People and Land: The Price of Prosperity
  • "New" Ideas
  • Race, Belonging, and Political Dependency
  • 6 Easy Money and Respectable Girls: Gender Ideology and Neoliberal Development
  • EDC Money
  • Respectability
  • Working to Get Familiar
  • Easy Money
  • EDC Money
  • Neoliberal Development
  • Spaces of Consumption
  • The Space of EDC Girls
  • New Identities through Consumption
  • Conclusion
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index.

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