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The Ruptures Of American Capital: Women Of Color Feminism And The Culture Of Immigrant Labor
Grace Kyungwon Hong
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Paperback. Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFK; JFSL; JHBL; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 150 x 12. Weight in Grams: 308.
Universality is a dangerous concept, according to Grace Kyungwon Hong, one that has contributed to the rise of the U.S. nation-state that privileges the propertied individual. However, African American, Asian American, and Chicano people experience the same stretch of city sidewalk with varying degrees of safety, visibility, and surveillance.The Ruptures of American Capital examines two key social formations—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 not as monolithic but as marked by its crises. Hong shows how women of color ... Read more
Universality is a dangerous concept, according to Grace Kyungwon Hong, one that has contributed to the rise of the U.S. nation-state that privileges the propertied individual. However, African American, Asian American, and Chicano people experience the same stretch of city sidewalk with varying degrees of safety, visibility, and surveillance.The Ruptures of American Capital examines two key social formations—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 not as monolithic but as marked by its crises. Hong shows how women of color ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816646357
SKU
V9780816646357
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About Grace Kyungwon Hong
Grace Kyungwon Hong is assistant professor of English and Asian American studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
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