04594nam 2200709 a 450 991078268920332120220309214237.097866119666901-281-96669-X0-226-84123-510.7208/9780226841236(CKB)1000000000692806(EBL)408243(OCoLC)476228162(SSID)ssj0000141134(PQKBManifestationID)11134514(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000141134(PQKBWorkID)10056837(PQKB)11125173(MiAaPQ)EBC408243(DE-B1597)523819(OCoLC)1058470163(DE-B1597)9780226841236(Au-PeEL)EBL408243(CaPaEBR)ebr10265892(CaONFJC)MIL196669(EXLCZ)99100000000069280620070605d2007 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrDowntown ladies[electronic resource] informal commercial importers, a Haitian anthropologist, and self-making in Jamaica /Gina A. UlysseChicago University of Chicago Press20071 online resource (351 p.)Women in culture and societyDescription based upon print version of record.0-226-84121-9 0-226-84122-7 Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-315) and index.Front matter --Contents --Foreword --Acknowledgments --Introduction. Toward a Reflexive Political Economy within a Political Economy of Reflexivity --Chapter One. Of Ladies and Women: Historicizing Gendered Class and Color Codes --Chapter Two. From Higglering to Informal Commercial Importing --Chapter Three. Caribbean Alter(ed)natives: An Auto-Ethnographic Quilt --Chapter Four. Uptown Women/Downtown Ladies: Differences among ICIs --Chapter Five. Inside and Outside of the Arcade: My Downtown Dailies and Miss B.'s Tuffness --Chapter Six. Shopping in Miami: Globalization, Saturated Markets, and the Reflexive Political Economy of ICIs --Chapter Seven. Style, Imported Blackness, and My Jelly Platform Shoes --Brawta. Written on Black Bodies: ICIs' Futures --Notes --Bibliography --IndexThe 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 Challenging this stereotype and other outdated images of black women, Downtown Ladies offers a more complex picture by documenting the history of independent international traders-known as informal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 emergence in the 1970's, have made significant contributions to the regional, national, and global economies. Gina Ulysse carefully explores how ICIs, determined to be self-employed, struggle with government regulation and other social tensions to negotiate their autonomy. Informing this story of self-fashioning with reflections on her own experience as a young Haitian anthropologist, Ulysse combines the study of political economy with the study of individual and collective identity to reveal the uneven consequences of disrupting traditional class, color, and gender codes in individual societies and around the world.Women in culture and society.Street vendorsJamaicaWomen merchantsJamaicaInformal sector (Economics)JamaicaImportsJamaicamarket woman, caribbean, jamaica, self-making, black women, archetype, independent international traders, informal commercial importers, ici, kingston, public markets, globalization, economics, self employment, independence, gender, race, stereotypes, government regulation, autonomy, self-fashioning, haiti, anthropology, political economy, identity, tradition, street vendors, merchants, imports, saturation, blackness, nonfiction.Street vendorsWomen merchantsInformal sector (Economics)Imports381/.18082097292Ulysse Gina Athena1539452MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910782689203321Downtown ladies3790352UNINA