Sex workers, psychics, and numbers runners : black women in New York City's underground economy / LaShawn Harris.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Harris, LaShawn, 1974- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2016]
Series:New Black studies series.
Subjects:
African American women > Employment > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century.
Under-the-table employment > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century.
Informal sector > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century.
African American women > Employment.
Informal sector (Economics)
Under-the-table employment.
New York (State) > New York.
1900 - 1999
History.
Genre:
History.
Local Note:
MSU Stanley C. and Selma D. Hollander Faculty Book Collection.
Physical Description:ix, 260 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Black women, urban labor, and New York's informal economy
  • Madame queen of policy: Stephanie St. Clair, Harlem's numbers racket, and community advocacy
  • Black women supernatural consultants, numbers gambling, and public outcries against supernaturalism
  • 'I have my own room on 139th street": black women and the urban sex economy
  • "Decent and god-fearing men and women' are restricted to these districts": community activism against urban vice and informal labor.