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“With its flexible and fluid structure, the informal labor sector offered employment and economic opportunities that complemented black women’s desire to secure occupational mobility”
― LeShawn Harris

“She relied upon her own survival skills to earn a living wage, illustrating a sense of individuality and commitment to self-preservation”
― LeShawn Harris

“It was hard standing on corners swallowing your pride. But it meant independence. Yes, independence”
― LeShawn Harris

“But for some women, individual desire for economic stability, material consumption, and personal pleasures compelled them to dismiss the advice of loved and concerned ones and ignore the countless stories about fallen urban women”
― LeShawn Harris

“Games of chance fell outside the boundaries of urban reformers’ definitions of respectable labor and amusement”
― LaShawn Harris

“African American women actively contested white constructions of black female labor.”
― LeShawn Harris

“adopting and performing masculinity, playing on conventional ideas about femininity and protection, employing violence, and creating mutually beneficial relationships and alliances with a host of urbanites”
― LeShawn Harris