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Headstrong : women porters, Blackness, and modernity in Accra /

"Headstrong explores the experiences of women porters, called kayayei, in Accra, Ghana. Drawing on a decade of fieldwork, anthropologist Laurian R. Bowles shows how kayayei navigate precarity, bringing into sharp relief how racialization, rooted in histories of colonialism and enslavement, unde...

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Main Author: Bowles, Laurian R. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2025]
Subjects:
Porters > Ghana > Accra > Social conditions > 21st century.
Women > Employment > Ghana > Accra.
Women > Ghana > Accra > Social conditions > 21st century.
Internal migrants > Employment > Ghana > Accra.
Internal migrants > Ghana > Accra > Social conditions > 21st century.
Markets > Ghana > Accra > Employees.
Accra (Ghana) > Economic conditions > 21st century.
Accra (Ghana) > Race relations.
Personnel féminin > Ghāna > Accra.
Transport > Ghāna > Accra.
Économie à la demande > Ghāna > Accra.
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