Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: Black Women in New York City's Underground Economy by LaShawn Harris

New Black Studies

Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: Black Women in New York City's Underground Economy

LaShawn Harris

296 pages hardcover 2016

3 editions

nonfiction feminism history challenging informative slow-paced
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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 p...

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