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1 online resource |
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Recognitions and Gratitude -- Introduction -- Part I. Land -- 1. Panicked Landscapes: Dispossession, Liberal Nationalism, Allegorical Disposals -- 2. Racial Returns: Slave Speculation, Managerial Capitalism, the Spectacular Sites of Yosemite -- Part II. Persons -- 3. Masks and Manipulations of Personhood: The National Popular, Corporate Minstrelsy, Improvisation in the Offbeat -- 4. Sacred Spaces of Structural Adjustment: Erotic Fraternity, Institutional Dispensation, America and Education -- Part III. Collectivities |
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5. Home Ownership Hope and the Sellout of the State: Predatory Nationalism, Racialized Risk, Life under Terms of Last Resort -- 6. Revelry in the Multicultural Finance State: Urban Abandonment, Identity Adjustment, May Day the Powderhorn Way -- Notes -- Index |
| Summary |
Somehow people continue to imagine a world of justice against the odds of a deck that has been stacked against them. In her urgent and perceptive book, Life in and against the Odds, Hoechst focuses on the particular circumstances and conditions of different phases of speculative expansion in the United States. She traces the roots of the nation-state to nineteenth-century land markets and slave exchanges. Hoechst also chronicles how these racial foundations extend through corporate capitalism from the 1920s and ́30s to the present era of financialized capitalism and the recent housing bubble. Life in and against the Odds identifies where and how speculative nationalism creates roadblocks to freedom. Hoechst retells the history of the United States with a perspective on how human lives are made, destroyed, reconfigured, and claimed under the systemic violence of a nation that is rooted in the racializing futurity of speculative capitalism.-- Provided by Publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
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Equality -- United States -- History
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Nationalism -- United States -- History
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Speculation -- United States -- History
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Capitalism -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States
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Democracy -- United States
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
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HISTORY -- Social History.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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LITERARY CRITICISM / General
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Capitalism -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Democracy
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Economic history
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Equality
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Nationalism
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Social conditions
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Speculation
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United States -- Economic conditions.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140020
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United States -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140511
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2015013700 |
| ISBN |
9781439912195 |
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143991219X |
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