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

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Ulysse, Gina Athena.
Imprint:	Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
Description:	1 online resource (xvi, 333 pages) : maps
Language:	English
Series:	Women in culture and society Women in culture and society.
Subject:	Street vendors -- Jamaica. Women merchants -- Jamaica. Informal sector (Economics) -- Jamaica. Imports -- Jamaica. Imports. Informal sector (Economics) Street vendors. Women merchants. Jamaica. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11187160

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 Challenging this stereotype and other outdated images of black women, Downtown Ladies offers a more complex picture by documenting the history of independent international traders?known as informal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

Table of Contents:

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.

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