Money has no smell : the Africanization of New York City / Paul Stoller.
Material type: TextPublication details: Chicago, IL : University of Chicago Press, 2002.Description: xi, 222 pages : photos,diagrams,map ; 24 cmISBN:- 0226775291
- 0226775305
- West Africans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Economic conditions
- West Africans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions
- Muslims -- New York (State) -- New York -- Economic conditions
- Muslims -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions
- Street vendors -- New York (State) -- New York
- Globalization -- Social aspects -- New York (State) -- New York
- Transnationalism -- Social aspects -- New York (State) -- New York
- New York (N.Y.) -- Commerce -- Social aspects
- New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions
- New York (N.Y.) -- Ethnic relations
- 305.896/607471 21
- F 128 .9 .A 24 S 76 2002
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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BOOKS | Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library General Stacks | F 128.9.A 24 S 76 2002 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Not For Loan | NPML22010001 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-217) and index.
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.
"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. As Stoller demonstrates, the stories of these West African traders illustrate and illuminate ongoing debates about globalization, the informal economy, and the changing nature of American communities." -- from the back cover.
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