Money Has No Smell : The Africanization of New York City
Paul. Stoller
Bok Engelsk 2010 · Electronic books.
| Utgitt | Chicago, IL : : University of Chicago Press, , 2010.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (236 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Prologue: Money Has No Smell; 1 A Slow Afternoon at the Harlem Market; 2 Urban Intersections/Existential Crossroads; 3 The Way of the Jaguar; 4 African/Asian/Uptown/Downtown; 5 Afrocentric Marketing; 6 Regulating Urban Life; 7 The Spatial Politics of African Trading in Harlem; 8 City Life; Epilogue: Issifi's Path; Notes; References; Index. - In February 1999 the tragic New York City police shooting of Amadou Diallo, an unarmed street vendor from Guinea, brought into focus the existence of West African merchants in urban America. In Money Has No Smell, Paul Stoller offers us a more complete portrait of the complex lives of West African immigrants like Diallo, a portrait based on years of research Stoller conducted on the streets of New York City during the 1990s.Blending fascinating ethnographic description with incisive social analysis, Stoller shows how these savvy West African entrepreneurs have built cohesiv
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| ISBN | 0226775291. - 0226775305
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