Money Has No Smell

The Africanization of New York City

By: Paul Stoller

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Paperback | 15 April 2002 | Edition Number 1

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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 cohesive and effective multinational trading networks, in part through selling a simulated Africa to African Americans. These and other networks set up by the traders, along with their faith as devout Muslims, help them cope with the formidable state regulations and personal challenges they face in America. As Stoller demonstrates, the stories of these West African traders illustrate and illuminate ongoing debates about globalization, the informal economy, and the changing nature of American communities.

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"Through this extraordinary study, Stoller succeeds in showing us how globalization is changing today's urban worlds. To do this he has to negotiate multiple levels of analysis, from the ethnographic detail of a vendor's sidewalk spot to that of the trading networks that connect across the Atlantic. This is a major contribution to the scholarship on immigration, the informal economy, and global cities." - Saskia Sassen, author of Guests and Aliens

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Non-Fiction Economics Society & Culture Social Issues & Processes Globalisation Sociology & Anthropology Anthropology Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography Social Groups Social & Cultural Aspects of Religious Groups Islamic Studies Urban Communities

Ethnic Studies Black & Asian Studies Archaeology

Prologue: Money Has No Smell
A Slow Afternoon at the Harlem Market
Urban Intersections/Existential Crossroads
The Way of the Jaguar
African/Asian/Uptown/Downtown
Afrocentric Marketing
Regulating Urban Life
The Spatial Politics of African Trading in Harlem
City Life
Epilogue: Issifi's Path
Notes
References
Index
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Money Has No Smell

The Africanization of New York City

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