Crossroads: Tracing African paths on New York City streets

Ethnography

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 35-62

  Stoller, Paul ^a  

^a WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

African diaspora; ethnographic epistemology; immigration; informal economy; street vendors; transnationalism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84996219468     PISSN: 14661381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/14661380222231063     Document Type: Article

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