An edition of Downtown ladies (2007)

Downtown ladies

informal commercial importers, a Haitian anthropologist, and self-making in Jamaica

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An edition of Downtown ladies (2007)

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 Challenging this stereotype and other outdated images of black women, Downtown Ladies offers a more complex picture by documenting the history of independent international traders—known as informal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 emergence in the 1970s, have made significant contributions to the regional, national, and global economies. Gina Ulysse carefully explores how ICIs, determined to be self-employed, struggle with government regulation and other social tensions to negotiate their autonomy. Informing this story of self-fashioning with reflections on her own experience as a young Haitian anthropologist, Ulysse combines the study of political economy with the study of individual and collective identity to reveal the uneven consequences of disrupting traditional class, color, and gender codes in individual societies and around the world.

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333

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Downtown Ladies: Informal Commercial Importers, a Haitian Anthropologist and Self-Making in Jamaica (Women in Culture and Society Series)
March 15, 2008, University Of Chicago Press, University of Chicago Press
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2008, University of Chicago Press
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Downtown ladies: informal commercial importers, a Haitian anthropologist, and self-making in Jamaica
2007, University of Chicago Press
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Downtown ladies: informal commercial importers, a Haitian anthropologist, and self-making in Jamaica
2007, University of Chicago Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-315) and index.

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Series
Women in culture and society

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Dewey Decimal Class
381/.18082097292
Library of Congress
HF5459.J25 U59 2007

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Pagination
xvi, 333 p. :
Number of pages
333

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OL18498163M
ISBN 10
0226841219, 0226841227
ISBN 13
9780226841212, 9780226841229
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2007022667
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6239108
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2484760
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