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

Author/creator Ulysse, Gina A.
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoChicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
Descriptionxvi, 333 pages : maps ; 23 cm.
Supplemental Content Table of contents only
Supplemental Content Publisher description
Subject(s)
Series Women in culture and society
Women in culture and society. ^A224638
Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [283]-315) and index.
LCCN 2007022667
ISBN9780226841212 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0226841219 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780226841229 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0226841227 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks HF 5459.J25 U59 2007 ✔ Available Place Hold