Downtown Ladies: Informal Commercial Importers, a Haitian Anthropologist and Self-Making in Jamaica

(Part of the Women in Culture and Society Series)

by Gina Athena Ulysse

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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 Challenging this stereotype and other outdated images of black women, Downtown Ladies offers a more complex picture by documenting the history of independent international traders--known as informal commercial importers, or ICIs--who travel abroad to import and export a vast array of consumer goods sold...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0226841227

ISBN13:9780226841229

Release Date:March 2008

Publisher:University of Chicago Press

Length:304 Pages

Weight:1.17 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"

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Anthropology Cultural Economic Conditions Economics Gender Studies Political Economy Political Science Politics & Government Politics & Social Sciences Social Science

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Downtown Ladies: Informal Commercial Importers, a Haitian Anthropologist and Self-Making in Jamaica

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