LEADER 04594nam 2200709 a 450 001 9910782689203321 005 20220309214237.0 010 $a9786611966690 010 $a1-281-96669-X 010 $a0-226-84123-5 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226841236 035 $a(CKB)1000000000692806 035 $a(EBL)408243 035 $a(OCoLC)476228162 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000141134 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11134514 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000141134 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10056837 035 $a(PQKB)11125173 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC408243 035 $a(DE-B1597)523819 035 $a(OCoLC)1058470163 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226841236 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL408243 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10265892 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL196669 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000692806 100 $a20070605d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDowntown ladies$b[electronic resource] $einformal commercial importers, a Haitian anthropologist, and self-making in Jamaica /$fGina A. Ulysse 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d2007 215 $a1 online resource (351 p.) 225 1 $aWomen in culture and society 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-226-84121-9 311 $a0-226-84122-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [283]-315) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tForeword --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction. Toward a Reflexive Political Economy within a Political Economy of Reflexivity --$tChapter One. Of Ladies and Women: Historicizing Gendered Class and Color Codes --$tChapter Two. From Higglering to Informal Commercial Importing --$tChapter Three. Caribbean Alter(ed)natives: An Auto-Ethnographic Quilt --$tChapter Four. Uptown Women/Downtown Ladies: Differences among ICIs --$tChapter Five. Inside and Outside of the Arcade: My Downtown Dailies and Miss B.'s Tuffness --$tChapter Six. Shopping in Miami: Globalization, Saturated Markets, and the Reflexive Political Economy of ICIs --$tChapter Seven. Style, Imported Blackness, and My Jelly Platform Shoes --$tBrawta. Written on Black Bodies: ICIs' Futures --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aThe Caribbean "market woman" is ingrained in the popular imagination as the archetype of black womanhood in countries throughout the region. Challenging this stereotype and other outdated images of black women, Downtown Ladies offers a more complex picture by documenting the history of independent international traders-known as informal commercial importers, or ICIs-who travel abroad to import and export a vast array of consumer goods sold in the public markets of Kingston, Jamaica. Both by-products of and participants in globalization, ICIs operate on multiple levels and, since their emergence in the 1970's, have made significant contributions to the regional, national, and global economies. Gina Ulysse carefully explores how ICIs, determined to be self-employed, struggle with government regulation and other social tensions to negotiate their autonomy. Informing this story of self-fashioning with reflections on her own experience as a young Haitian anthropologist, Ulysse combines the study of political economy with the study of individual and collective identity to reveal the uneven consequences of disrupting traditional class, color, and gender codes in individual societies and around the world. 410 0$aWomen in culture and society. 606 $aStreet vendors$zJamaica 606 $aWomen merchants$zJamaica 606 $aInformal sector (Economics)$zJamaica 606 $aImports$zJamaica 610 $amarket woman, caribbean, jamaica, self-making, black women, archetype, independent international traders, informal commercial importers, ici, kingston, public markets, globalization, economics, self employment, independence, gender, race, stereotypes, government regulation, autonomy, self-fashioning, haiti, anthropology, political economy, identity, tradition, street vendors, merchants, imports, saturation, blackness, nonfiction. 615 0$aStreet vendors 615 0$aWomen merchants 615 0$aInformal sector (Economics) 615 0$aImports 676 $a381/.18082097292 700 $aUlysse$b Gina Athena$01539452 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910782689203321 996 $aDowntown ladies$93790352 997 $aUNINA