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Downtown Ladies: Informal Commercial Importers, a Haitian Anthropologist and Self-Making in Jamaica (Women in Culture and Society Series) by Gina Athena Ulysse; ProQuest (Firm) is a social science available to read on EtoBox.
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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 Challenging this stereotype and other outdated images of black women, <i>Downtown Ladies</i> 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.<br> <
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- Author
- Gina Athena Ulysse; ProQuest (Firm)
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press ; University Presses Marketing [distributor
- Published
- 2007
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780226841236
- Category
- social science
- Subjects
- Science, Anthropology, Business
- Rating
- 4.12 / 5 (8 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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