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| ISBN: | 9780226841236
0226841235
9780226841212
0226841219
9780226841229
0226841227
9786611966690
6611966692
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| Digital file characteristics: | data file
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-315) and index.
English.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | 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 Challenging this stereotype and other outdated images of black women, Downtown Ladies offers a more complex picture by documenting the history of independent international traders?known as informal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.
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| Other form: | Print version: Ulysse, Gina A. Downtown ladies. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007 9780226841212 0226841219
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