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

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

Women in Culture and Society

Gina Athena Ulysse

304 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction challenging informative medium-paced

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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 Challenging this stereotype and other outdated images of black women, Downtown Ladies offers a more comple...

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