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Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: Black Women in New York City's Underground Economy
Author
LaShawn Harris
Content
ix + 260 pp., ill., bibl., index
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Urbana: University of Illinois Press
Main subject
Business and Work
History
ISBN
9780252040207 (cloth); 9780252081668 (pap.); 9780252098420 (ebook)
Citation
Harris, LaShawn.
Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: Black Women in New York City's Underground Economy.
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2016. Sylvia. Accessed May 4, 2026. https://sylvia.library.wisc.edu/catalog/SYL4883.
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05-04-2026
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American Historical Review
124.1 (2019): 267–68
Palimpsest
7.1 (2018): 67
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