Downtown ladies informal commercial importers, a Haitian anthropologist, and self-making in Jamaica
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- ISBN: 9780226841236 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0226841235 (electronic bk.)
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1 online resource (xvi, 333 p.) : maps. - Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
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General Note: | Multi-User. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-315) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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