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

Name: Downtown Ladies Informal Commercial Importers, a Haitian Anthropologist and Self-Making in Jamaica
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ISBN: 9780226841229

ISBN-10: 0226841227

ISBN-13: 9780226841229

Edition: 2008

Authors: Gina A. 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 Challenging this stereotype and other outdated images of black women,Downtown Ladiesoffers a more complex picture by documenting the history of independent international traders—known as informal commercial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.…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 3/15/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 0.63" wide x 0.91" long x 0.08" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Foreword



Acknowledgments


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: ICIs' Futures


Notes


Bibliography


Index