Downtown Ladies

Foreword by Catharine R. Stimpson
Acknowledgments

Introduction: Toward a Reflexive Political Economy within a Political Economy of Reflexivity
Chapter 1: Of Ladies and Women: Historicizing Gendered Class and Color Codes
Chapter 2: From Higglering to Informal Commercial Importing
Chapter 3: Caribbean Alter(ed)natives: An Auto-Ethnographic Quilt
Chapter 4: Uptown Women/Downtown Ladies: Differences among ICIs
Chapter 5: Inside and Outside of the Arcade: My Downtown Dailies and Miss B.’s Tuffness
Chapter 6: Shopping in Miami: Globalization, Saturated Markets, and the Reflexive Political Economy of ICIs
Chapter 7: Style, Imported Blackness, and My Jelly Platform Shoes
Brawta: Written on Black Bodies: The Futures of ICIs
Notes
Bibliography
Index