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11%OFFLashawn Harris - Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: Black Women in New York City´s Underground Economy - 9780252081668 - V9780252081668
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Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: Black Women in New York City´s Underground Economy

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Description for Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: Black Women in New York City´s Underground Economy Paperback. Series: New Black Studies Series. Num Pages: 280 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JJ; JFMX; JFSJ1; JFSL3; KCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 468.
During the early twentieth century, a diverse group of African American women carved out unique niches for themselves within New York City's expansive informal economy. LaShawn Harris illuminates the labor patterns and economic activity of three perennials within this kaleidoscope of underground industry: sex work, numbers running for gambling enterprises, and the supernatural consulting business. Mining police and prison records, newspaper accounts, and period literature, Harris teases out answers to essential questions about these women and their working lives. She also offers a surprising revelation, arguing that the burgeoning underground economy served as a catalyst in working-class black women ™s ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
New Black Studies Series
Condition
New
Weight
468g
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252081668
SKU
V9780252081668
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About Lashawn Harris
LaShawn Harris is an assistant professor of history at Michigan State University.

Reviews for Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: Black Women in New York City´s Underground Economy
Darlene Clark Hine Award, Organization of American Historians (OAH), 2017 Philip Taft Labor Prize in Labor and Working-Class History, Labor and Working-Class History Association (LAWCHA) and the Cornell ILR School, 2017 "This outstanding first monograph by historian Harris continues Deborah Gray White's 1987 call for historians to reclaim the voices of African American women lost in the ... Read more

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