Downtown ladies : informal commercial importers, a Haitian anthropologist, and self-making in Jamaica /

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The Caribbean?market woman? is ingrained in the popular imagination as the archetype of black womanhood in countries throughout the region. Challenging this stereotype and other outdated images of black women, Downtown Ladies offers a more complex picture by documenting the history of independent in...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ulysse, Gina Athena
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
Colección:Women in culture and society.
Temas:
Street vendors > Jamaica.
Women merchants > Jamaica.
Informal sector (Economics) > Jamaica.
Imports > Jamaica.
Marchands des rues > Jamaïque.
Commerçantes > Jamaïque.
Secteur informel (Économie politique) > Jamaïque.
Importations > Jamaïque.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > Retailing.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Marketing > Direct.
TRAVEL > Shopping.
Imports
Informal sector (Economics)
Street vendors
Women merchants
Jamaica
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Toward a reflexive political economy within a political economy of reflexivity
  • Of ladies and women : historicizing gendered class and color codes
  • From higglering to informal commercial importing
  • Caribbean alter(ed) natives : an auto-ethnographic quilt
  • Uptown women/downtown ladies : differences among ICIs
  • Inside and outside of the arcade : my downtown dailies and Miss B.'s tuffness
  • Shopping in Miami : globalization, saturated markets, and the reflexive political economy of ICIs
  • Style, imported blackness, and my jelly platform shoes
  • Brawta: Written on black bodies : the futures of ICIs.

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