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1 online resource |
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Anthropologies of American medicine |
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Anthropologies of American medicine.
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| Contents |
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 |
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5. A Lack of Reciprocity: Wages, Benefits, and Contingent EmploymentInterlude: Foreclosure; Conclusion: Recognition and Belonging through Care; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; Index; About the Author |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed February 22, 2019) |
| Subject |
Home care services -- United States
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Caregivers -- United States.
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Foreign workers, African -- United States
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Home Care Services
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Caregivers
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
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Caregivers
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Foreign workers, African
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Home care services
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| SUBJECT |
United States https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481 |
| Subject |
United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781479850921 |
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1479850926 |
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