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portada Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: Black Women in new York City's Underground Economy (New Black Studies Series) (in English)
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Author
Year
2016
Language
English
Pages
280
Format
Paperback
ISBN13
9780252081668
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Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: Black Women in new York City's Underground Economy (New Black Studies Series) (in English)

Lashawn Harris (Author) · University Of Illinois Press · Paperback

Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: Black Women in new York City's Underground Economy (New Black Studies Series) (in English) - Lashawn Harris

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Synopsis "Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: Black Women in new York City's Underground Economy (New Black Studies Series) (in English)"

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 (TM)s creation of the employment opportunities, occupational identities, and survival strategies that provided them with financial stability and a sense of labor autonomy and mobility. At the same time, urban black women, all striving for economic and social prospects and pleasures, experienced the conspicuous and hidden dangers associated with newfound labor opportunities.

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