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CRIMES OF SURVIVAL: BLACK WOMEN IN THE UNDERGROUND ECONOMY - LaShawn Harris. Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: Black Women in New York City's Underground Economy. Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2016. 280 pp. $95.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-252-04020-7; $28.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-252-08166-8.

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LaShawn Harris. Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: Black Women in New York City's Underground Economy. Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2016. 280 pp. $95.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-252-04020-7; $28.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-252-08166-8.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 January 2017

Jennifer Fronc*
Affiliation:
University of Massachusetts Amherst

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Copyright © Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 2017 

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NOTES

1 Trotter, Joe W., “The Great Migration, African Americans, and Immigrants in the Industrial City” in Not Just Black and White: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity in the United States, eds. Foner, Nancy and Frederickson, George (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2004), 8283 Google Scholar.

2 Orsi, Robert, Thank you, St. Jude: Women's Devotion to the Patron Saint of Hopeless Causes (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1966)Google Scholar.