Description:
All Work Is Cultural Work examines how Haitian women living in diaspora find belonging through their work outside the home. Sociologist Nikita 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 their new nations. Ultimately, Carney concludes, culture is indivisible from labor and labor from culture.
Review Quotes: "A brilliant cultural analysis and a meticulous ethnography that reshapes our understanding of migration, labor, and belonging. In this nuanced transnational study, Carney illuminates how diasporic Haitian women in Boston, Montreal, and Paris navigate the intersections of race, gender, class, and paid labor to forge cultural citizenship across borders. This book offers a pathbreaking contribution to sociology and the broader social sciences by challenging conventional paradigms of migration and citizenship, revealing how work itself becomes a profound act of cultural production and resistance. This is essential reading for scholars of migration, culture, labor studies, gender, and race."--Victor M. Rios "author of Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys"