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

New Black Studies

LaShawn Harris

280 pages • first pub 2016 (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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