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

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 Challenging this stereotype and other outdated images of black women, Downtown Ladies offers a more complex picture by documenting the history of independent in...

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1. Verfasser: Ulysse, Gina Athena
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
Schriftenreihe:Women in culture and society.
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Zusammenfassung: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 Challenging this stereotype and other outdated images of black women, Downtown Ladies offers a more complex picture by documenting the history of independent international traders?known as informal commercial importers, or ICIs?who travel abroad to import and export a vast array of consumer goods sold in the public markets of Kingston, Jamaica. Both by-products of and participants in globalization, ICIs operate on multiple levels and, since their emergenc.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xvi, 333 pages) : maps
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-315) and index.
ISBN:9780226841236
0226841235
9786611966690
6611966692

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