Sex workers, psychics, and numbers runners : Black women in New York City's underground economy / LaShawn Harris.

"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 unde...

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Main Author: Harris, LaShawn, 1974- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2016]
Series:New Black studies series.
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Genre/Form:Electronic books
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central