| Description |
1 online resource |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Summary |
Virgin Capital examines the cultural impact and historical significance of the Economic Development Commission (EDC) in the United States Virgin Islands. A tax holiday program, the EDC encourages financial services companies to relocate to these American-owned islands in exchange for an exemption from 90% of income taxes, and to stimulate the economy by hiring local workers and donating to local charitable causes. As a result of this program, the largest and poorest of these islands--St. Croix--has played host to primarily US financial firms and their white managers, leading to reinvigorated anxieties around the costs of racial capitalism and a feared return to the racial and gender order that ruled the islands during slavery. Drawing on fieldwork conducted during the boom years leading up to the 2008-2009 financial crisis, Virgin Capital provides ethnographic insight into the continuing relations of coloniality at work in the quintessentially "modern" industry of financial services and neoliberal "development" regimes, with their grounding in hierarchies of race, gender, class, and geopolitical positioning. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Economic Development Commission (Program : United States Virgin Islands)
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Tax havens -- United States Virgin Islands -- Saint Croix.
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Tax havens. |
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United States Virgin Islands -- Saint Croix. |
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Economic development -- United States Virgin Islands -- Saint Croix.
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Economic development. |
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Financial services industry -- United States Virgin Islands -- Saint Croix.
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Financial services industry. |
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Banks and banking, International -- United States Virgin Islands -- Saint Croix.
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Banks and banking, International. |
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Saint Croix (United States Virgin Islands) -- Economic conditions -- 21st century.
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Saint Croix (United States Virgin Islands) -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
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Saint Croix (United States Virgin Islands) -- Race relations.
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Economic history. |
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Race relations. |
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Social conditions. |
| Chronological Term |
2000-2099 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| ISBN |
9781438486048 electronic book |
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1438486049 electronic book |
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9781438486031 |
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9781438486024 |
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