Money has no smell : the Africanization of New York City / Paul Stoller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stoller, Paul.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

West Africans--New York (State)--New York--Economic conditions.

West Africans.

West Africans--New York (State)--New York--Social conditions.

Muslims--New York (State)--New York--Economic conditions.

Muslims.

Muslims--New York (State)--New York--Social conditions.

Street vendors--New York (State)--New York.

Street vendors.

Globalization--Social aspects--New York (State)--New York.

Globalization.

Transnationalism--Social aspects--New York (State)--New York.

Transnationalism.

New York (N.Y.)--Commerce--Social aspects.

New York (N.Y.).

New York (N.Y.)--Social conditions.

New York (N.Y.)--Ethnic relations.

New York (N.Y.)--Social conditions--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (236 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.Blending fascinating ethnographic description with incisive social analysis, Stoller shows how these savvy West African entrepreneurs have built cohesiv

Contents:

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; Notes; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-217) and index.

ISBN:

9786612537721

9781282537729

1282537725

9780226775265

0226775267

OCLC:

593274217