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... US empire against the rising tide of communist insurgency. Reading against the hegemonic archival practices that venerate the gifting of soap as benevolent militarism, the article moves to examine the anarchic practice of South Vietnamese black marketeering, which redeployed soap as an illegal market...

...Jeong Min Kim Abstract This article examines the global and social processes that turned subsidized US war supplies into South Korean black market commodities during the Korean War. The widespread circulation of army supplies to the local black market has been often considered a natural result...

...Kathy M. Newman Copyright © 2000 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 2000 The Forgotten Fifteen Million: Black Radio, the ”Negro Market” and the Civil Rights Movement Kathy M. Newman The forgotten 15,000,000: Ten billion...

... call "major markets," U.S. businesses sought to influence the consumption patterns of these increasingly impor- tant black consumers. This article will survey the dynamics of the relationship between U.S. corporations and African-American con- sumers during the 1960s. Before the 1960s...

..., the market not only colludes with the prison, but also mimics it. © 2012 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 2012 Reflections: Managing Bodies Possessed by Death The Neoliberal-­Carceral State, Black Feminism, and the Afterlife of Slavery Stephen Dillon “The trail...

... in the United States, Haiti, China, and elsewhere that sought to find a scapegoat for the pandemic, the course then turns to the global power of the pharmaceutical industry. It examines the marketing and lobbying strategies of companies such as Gilead, which use the stigma of HIV/AIDS to transform impoverished...

... people. Adding to the rich scholarship on the economies of sex work and military bases, Jeong Min Kim’s article, “From Military Supplies to Wartime Commodities,” sheds new light on the relationship between transactional sex and black market economies that emerged alongside US military installations...

... A minor enough issue on the surface of things, but one that reveals unexpected eco- nomic activity. Peasant women (or the women of peasants, as the senate viewed them) were engaging in some variation of a black market. Not only were they apparently able to do so without the men in the family...

... A minor enough issue on the surface of things, but one that reveals unexpected eco- nomic activity. Peasant women (or the women of peasants, as the senate viewed them) were engaging in some variation of a black market. Not only were they apparently able to do so without the men in the family...

...- sans to survive, best we could. VG: You mean just to get supplies, or for protection? HC: No, no, protection. You know the Army is a very crass experi- ence. We, naturally, being supply troops, we got in trouble, we got in a very bad situation with the black market. They preyed on us, you...

... the surging demand for Yarur cloth and yarn that reflected the 30 percent jump in average real incomes during 1971. Nor could it overcome the growing shortages of Yarur products in the national market- place and the rise of a virulent black market. Confronted by conditions they could not control, Ex...

... sought after, these posts in the urban labor market could scant absorb the refugees from a declining rural economy.35 As a result, most workers in Kingston made a liv- ing through the informal economy—black market imports, drug trade, prostitution, numbers...

... the course of our research. When we arrived in Donetsk in July 1989, the ruble remained at its official, and longstanding, rate of sixty kopeks to one U.S. dollar, although on the black market the dollar fetched five to ten rubles. When we returned in May 1991, the difference between the two rates...

... World War, food, fuel, building materials, and many other basic necessities were in desperately short supply. Black markets flourished and the poor, in their vul­ nerable positions, often had to pay the highest prices of all. The CPSA briefly addressed this problem by attempting to monitor...

.... Through a deft reading of diverse archival sources, Tran tracks how rural communities “ruptured” these supposedly humanitarian practices of imperial gift giving with “acts of refusal and indifference,” selling the cakes of soap on local black markets as a way of making ends meet. Tran’s focus...

..., both in illicit black markets and outside capitalistic distribution channels entirely, as in the often handwritten pornographic stories that circulated widely by the 1940s. Consump - tion of all these erotic texts was, as Waugh notes, “an act of belonging to a com...

...: “There will be a black market of fake [blanc] PaCS.”36 Here Boutin directly taps the common process of immigrant criminalization in France (and Europe). Immigrants from France’s former colonies as well as those 05-Raissiguier.btw 4/23/02 4:36 PM Page 85...

... for the Irish aims to centralize Irish whiteness. Many white people in Ireland still have their one Black friend, one Black colleague, and networks that are still predominantly white. Many organizations still build on and draw from white networks, as is evident in the labor market. Some organizations’ employee...

... scholars have argued that ”the percent of the team’s players who are black is positively and significantly (at the 1-per- cent level) related to team revenue,” most observers agree that, as the league became predominantly African American, the sport lost what little fan and marketing appeal it had...

...-­ Thatcher era: How was it possible that money — and so much money, at that — was being made after the widespread disappearance of heavy industry in the US and the advanced capitalist North? How can profit persist without production? What was the stock market, anyway, and how did it actually work?1...