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

by Gina Athena Ulysse

Book Overview

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 Challenging this stereotype and other outdated images of black women, Downtown Ladies offers a more complex picture by documenting the history of independent international traders--known as informal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: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"