Money Has No Smell: The Africanization of New York City
Money Has No Smell: The Africanization of New York City
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金钱没有气味：纽约市的非洲化
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2002
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P. Stoller
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1999 年 2 月，纽约市警察枪杀了来自几内亚手无寸铁的街头小贩阿马杜·迪亚洛 (Amadou Diallo) 的惨案，使美国城市中西非商人的存在成为人们关注的焦点。在《金钱无味》中，保罗·斯托勒为我们提供了对迪亚洛这样的西非移民复杂生活的更完整的描绘，这幅肖像是基于斯托勒在 20 世纪 90 年代纽约市街道上进行的多年研究而绘制的。将引人入胜的民族志描述与深入的社会分析融为一体。斯托勒展示了这些精明的西非企业家如何建立有凝聚力和有效的跨国贸易网络，部分是通过向非裔美国人出售模拟的非洲。商人建立的这些网络和其他网络，以及他们作为虔诚穆斯林的信仰，帮助他们应对在美国面临的强大的国家法规和个人挑战。正如斯托勒所展示的，这些西非商人的故事说明并阐明了有关全球化、非正规经济和美国社区性质变化的持续辩论。
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.