An alliance of women : immigration and the politics of race / Heather Merrill.

An alliance of women : immigration and the politics of race / Heather Merrill.

Heather Merrill investigates how migrants and Northern Italians struggle over meanings and negotiate social and cultural identities. Using rich ethnographic material, Merrill traces the emergence of Alma Materan anti-racist organization formed to address problems encountered by migrant women. Throug...

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Online Access: Full text (Emerson users only)
Main Author: Merrill, Heather
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2006.
Subjects:
Alma Mater (Organization : Turin, Italy)
Feminism > Italy.
Women, Black > Italy > Social conditions.
Women immigrants > Italy > Turin.
Africans > Italy > Turin.
Feminism > International cooperation.
Turin (Italy) > Race relations.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: immigration and the spatial politics of scale
  • The spatial politics of race and gender
  • Alma Mater: the architecture of an interethnic social politics
  • Limiting the laboring: industrial restructuring and the new migration
  • Extracomunitari in post-Fordist Turin
  • Race, politics, and protest in the Casbah, or San Salvario, Africa
  • Turin feminism: from workerism to interethnic gender alliance
  • Making Alma Mater: gender, race, and other differences
  • Conclusion: speaking subjects
  • Epilogue: gender and globalization at the G8 in Genoa, July 2001.

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