All Work Is Cultural Work

Diasporic Haitian Women, Paid Labor, and Cultural Citizenship

Nikita Carney (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

176 Seiten

2025
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
9781978828315 (ISBN)

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What does it mean to belong in a nation? All Work is Cultural Work examines how Haitian women living in diaspora find and create status through their work outside the home. Nikita Carney draws on ethnographic data gathered over several years in Boston, Montreal, and Paris with women who left Haiti in search of other things: safety, financial security, and opportunity. Ranging from administrative assistants to dancers to preschool teachers, the women in this study share their rich experiences, teaching us how they found a place in their new host nations through paid labor. Focusing on small, daily interactions in the workplace, these women’s narratives highlight the ways in which often invisible daily cultural practices build and re-build both the nation and the home. Taking into account the overlapping and interlocking systems of oppression her participants face both nationally and globally, Carney uses an intersectional analysis to illuminate how the workplace serves as a central site in which Haitian women become raced, gendered, and classed within the nation. Ultimately, the lives and experiences of these women point to one conclusion: culture is indivisible from labor and labor from culture, with paid labor providing a vital method for national culture to be created and recreated each and every day.

Nikita Carney is an assistant professor of sociology at Bentley University in Waltham, MA.

Chapter 1: Haiti in a Global Context
Chapter 2: Social Ties and Complex Inclusion in the Nation
Chapter 3: Gendered Race and Ethnicity across Borders
Chapter 4: Gender Roles and Work, in and out of the Home Chapter 5: Gendered Work and Work as Independence
Chapter 6: All Work Is Cultural Work Conclusion
Afterword
Appendix A: Methodological Appendix
Appendix B: Overview of Interview Participants Acknowledgements
Notes
References

Erscheinungsdatum	13.11.2025
Reihe/Serie	Inequality at Work: Perspectives on Race, Gender, Class, and Labor
Zusatzinfo	1 table
Verlagsort	New Brunswick NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
ISBN-13	9781978828315 / 9781978828315
Zustand	Neuware