Downtown ladies [[electronic resource] ] : informal commercial importers, a Haitian anthropologist, and self-making in Jamaica / / Gina A. Ulysse |
Autore | Ulysse Gina Athena |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (351 p.) |
Disciplina | 381/.18082097292 |
Collana | Women in culture and society |
Soggetto topico |
Street vendors - Jamaica
Women merchants - Jamaica Informal sector (Economics) - Jamaica Imports - Jamaica |
Soggetto non controllato | market 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 |
ISBN |
9786611966690
1-281-96669-X 0-226-84123-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 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 -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782689203321 |
Ulysse Gina Athena | ||
Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2007 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Why Haiti needs new narratives : a post-quake chronicle / / Gina Athena Ulysse ; foreword by Robin D. G. Kelley ; translated by Nadève Mønard and Évelyne Trouillot |
Autore | Ulysse Gina Athena |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Middletown, Connecticut : , : Wesleyan University Press, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (438 p.) |
Disciplina | 972.9407/3 |
Soggetto topico | Haiti Earthquake, Haiti, 2010 |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-8195-7546-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Foreword / Robin D. G. Kelley -- Introduction: negotiating my Haiti(s) -- Responding to the call -- Avatar, voodoo, and white spiritual redemption -- Amid the rubble and ruin, our duty to Haiti remains -- Haiti will never be the same -- Dehumanization and fracture : trauma at home and abroad -- Haiti's future : a requiem for the dying -- Not-so-random thoughts on words, art, and creativity -- Sisters of the cowries, struggles, and haiti's future -- Tout moun se moun : everyone must count in Haiti -- Haiti's earthquake's nickname and some women's trauma -- Why representations of Haiti matter now more than ever -- Unfinished business, a proverb, and an uprooting -- Rape a part of daily life for women in Haitian relief camps -- Haiti's solidarity with angels -- Haiti's electionaval 2010 -- If i were president : Haiti's diasporic draft (part I) -- Staging Haiti's upcoming selection -- Haiti's fouled-up elections -- Reassessing my response -- Why I am marching for ayiti chorie -- Rising from the dust of goudougoudou -- The Haiti story you won't read -- When I wail for Haiti : debriefing (performing) a black Atlantic nightmare -- Pawol fanm sou douz janvye -- The legacy of a Haitian feminist, paulette poujol oriol -- Click! doing the dishes and my rock >n' roll dreams -- Constant : Haiti's fiercest flag bearer -- Haitian feminist yolette jeanty honored with other global women's activists -- Why context matters : journalists and Haiti -- A spiritual imperative -- Fractured temples : vodou two years after Haiti's earthquake -- Defending vodou in Haiti -- Loving Haiti beyond the mystique -- Coda: a plea is not a mantra -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910460393403321 |
Ulysse Gina Athena | ||
Middletown, Connecticut : , : Wesleyan University Press, , 2015 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Why Haiti needs new narratives : a post-quake chronicle / / Gina Athena Ulysse ; foreword by Robin D. G. Kelley ; translated by Nadève Mønard and Évelyne Trouillot |
Autore | Ulysse Gina Athena |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Middletown, Connecticut : , : Wesleyan University Press, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (438 p.) |
Disciplina | 972.9407/3 |
Soggetto topico | Haiti Earthquake, Haiti, 2010 |
ISBN | 0-8195-7546-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Foreword / Robin D. G. Kelley -- Introduction: negotiating my Haiti(s) -- Responding to the call -- Avatar, voodoo, and white spiritual redemption -- Amid the rubble and ruin, our duty to Haiti remains -- Haiti will never be the same -- Dehumanization and fracture : trauma at home and abroad -- Haiti's future : a requiem for the dying -- Not-so-random thoughts on words, art, and creativity -- Sisters of the cowries, struggles, and haiti's future -- Tout moun se moun : everyone must count in Haiti -- Haiti's earthquake's nickname and some women's trauma -- Why representations of Haiti matter now more than ever -- Unfinished business, a proverb, and an uprooting -- Rape a part of daily life for women in Haitian relief camps -- Haiti's solidarity with angels -- Haiti's electionaval 2010 -- If i were president : Haiti's diasporic draft (part I) -- Staging Haiti's upcoming selection -- Haiti's fouled-up elections -- Reassessing my response -- Why I am marching for ayiti chorie -- Rising from the dust of goudougoudou -- The Haiti story you won't read -- When I wail for Haiti : debriefing (performing) a black Atlantic nightmare -- Pawol fanm sou douz janvye -- The legacy of a Haitian feminist, paulette poujol oriol -- Click! doing the dishes and my rock >n' roll dreams -- Constant : Haiti's fiercest flag bearer -- Haitian feminist yolette jeanty honored with other global women's activists -- Why context matters : journalists and Haiti -- A spiritual imperative -- Fractured temples : vodou two years after Haiti's earthquake -- Defending vodou in Haiti -- Loving Haiti beyond the mystique -- Coda: a plea is not a mantra -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910797290503321 |
Ulysse Gina Athena | ||
Middletown, Connecticut : , : Wesleyan University Press, , 2015 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
|
Why Haiti needs new narratives : a post-quake chronicle / / Gina Athena Ulysse ; foreword by Robin D. G. Kelley ; translated by Nadève Mønard and Évelyne Trouillot |
Autore | Ulysse Gina Athena |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Middletown, Connecticut : , : Wesleyan University Press, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (438 p.) |
Disciplina | 972.9407/3 |
Soggetto topico | Haiti Earthquake, Haiti, 2010 |
ISBN | 0-8195-7546-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Foreword / Robin D. G. Kelley -- Introduction: negotiating my Haiti(s) -- Responding to the call -- Avatar, voodoo, and white spiritual redemption -- Amid the rubble and ruin, our duty to Haiti remains -- Haiti will never be the same -- Dehumanization and fracture : trauma at home and abroad -- Haiti's future : a requiem for the dying -- Not-so-random thoughts on words, art, and creativity -- Sisters of the cowries, struggles, and haiti's future -- Tout moun se moun : everyone must count in Haiti -- Haiti's earthquake's nickname and some women's trauma -- Why representations of Haiti matter now more than ever -- Unfinished business, a proverb, and an uprooting -- Rape a part of daily life for women in Haitian relief camps -- Haiti's solidarity with angels -- Haiti's electionaval 2010 -- If i were president : Haiti's diasporic draft (part I) -- Staging Haiti's upcoming selection -- Haiti's fouled-up elections -- Reassessing my response -- Why I am marching for ayiti chorie -- Rising from the dust of goudougoudou -- The Haiti story you won't read -- When I wail for Haiti : debriefing (performing) a black Atlantic nightmare -- Pawol fanm sou douz janvye -- The legacy of a Haitian feminist, paulette poujol oriol -- Click! doing the dishes and my rock >n' roll dreams -- Constant : Haiti's fiercest flag bearer -- Haitian feminist yolette jeanty honored with other global women's activists -- Why context matters : journalists and Haiti -- A spiritual imperative -- Fractured temples : vodou two years after Haiti's earthquake -- Defending vodou in Haiti -- Loving Haiti beyond the mystique -- Coda: a plea is not a mantra -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910818283003321 |
Ulysse Gina Athena | ||
Middletown, Connecticut : , : Wesleyan University Press, , 2015 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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