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- Title
Indigenous Circuits: Navajo Women and the Racialization of Early Electronic Manufacture.
- Authors
Nakamura, Lisa
- Abstract
An essay is presented which discusses the role that Navajo women played in the electronic manufacturing during the 1960s and 1970s, including their employment at the electronic firm Fairchild Semiconductor's plant at the Navajo Reservation in Shiprock, New Mexico. An overview of Navajo women's manufacturing of electronic circuits is provided. The racialization of Navajo women electronics employees, including in regard to the attribution of success to their racial identity, is discussed.
- Subjects
SHIPROCK (N.M.); UNITED States; NAVAJO women; HISTORY of electronics; FAIRCHILD Semiconductor Corp.; ELECTRONIC circuits; FACTORIES; MANUFACTURED products; RACIALIZATION; TWENTIETH century; EMPLOYMENT; HISTORY; EMPLOYEES
- Publication
American Quarterly, 2014, Vol 66, Issue 4, p919
- ISSN
0003-0678
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.1353/aq.2014.0070