The Black Social Economy in the Americas (eBook)

Exploring Diverse Community-Based Markets

Caroline Shenaz Hossein (Herausgeber)

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2017 | 1st ed. 2018
XXXV, 230 Seiten
Palgrave Macmillan US (Verlag)
978-1-137-60047-9 (ISBN)

Infos

This pioneering book explores the meaning of the term 'Black social economy,' a self-help sector that remains autonomous from the state and business sectors. With the Western Hemisphere's ignoble history of enslavement and violence towards African peoples, and the strong anti-black racism that still pervades society, the African diaspora in the Americas has turned to alternative practices of socio-economic organization. Conscientious and collective organizing is thus a means of creating meaningful livelihoods. In this volume, fourteen scholars explore the concept of the 'Black social economy,' bringing together innovative research on the lived experience of Afro-descendants in business and society in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, and the United States. The case studies in this book feature horrific legacies of enslavement, colonization, and racism, and they recount the myriad ways that persons of African heritage have built humane alternatives to the dominant market economy that excludes them. Together, they shed necessary light on the ways in which the Black race has been overlooked in the social economy literature.

Caroline Shenaz Hossein is Associate Professor of Business & Society in the Department of Social Science at York University in Toronto, Canada. She holds a PhD in Political Science (University of Toronto), an MPA (Cornell University), an LL.B (University of Kent at Canterbury), and BA (Saint Mary's University, Halifax). She is the author of Politicized Microfinance: Money, Power and Violence in the Black Americas and co-editor of Business & Society: A Critical Introduction.

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This pioneering book explores the meaning of the term "e;Black social economy,"e; a self-help sector that remains autonomous from the state and business sectors. With the Western Hemisphere's ignoble history of enslavement and violence towards African peoples, and the strong anti-black racism that still pervades society, the African diaspora in the Americas has turned to alternative practices of socio-economic organization. Conscientious and collective organizing is thus a means of creating meaningful livelihoods. In this volume, fourteen scholars explore the concept of the "e;Black social economy,"e; bringing together innovative research on the lived experience of Afro-descendants in business and society in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, and the United States. The case studies in this book feature horrific legacies of enslavement, colonization, and racism, and they recount the myriad ways that persons of African heritage have built humane alternatives to the dominant market economy that excludes them. Together, they shed necessary light on the ways in which the Black race has been overlooked in the social economy literature.   

Inhalt

1. Daring to Conceptualize the Black Social Economy Caroline Shenaz Hossein2. Revisiting Ideas and Ideologies in African American Social Economy: From the Past Forward Sanjukta Banerji Bhattacharya3. Drawing on the Lived Experience of African Canadians: Using Money Pools to Combat Social and Business Exclusion Caroline Shenaz Hossein and Ginelle Skerritt4. The Social Economy in a Jamaican Perspective K’adamawe K’nife, Edward Dixon, and Michael Marshall5. Building Economic Solidarity: Caribbean ROSCAs in Jamaica, Guyana and Haiti Caroline Shenaz Hossein 6. The Everyday Social Economy of Afro-descendants in the Chocó, Colombia Daniel G. L. Tubb7. The Social Economy of Afro-Argentines and African Descendants in Buenos Aires Prisca Gayles and Diane Ghogomu8. Commerce, Culture, and Community: African Brazilian Women Negotiating Their Social Economies Tiffany Y. Boyd-Adams9. The Quilombolas’ Refuge in Brazil: Social Economy, Communal Space and Shared Identity Simone Bohn and Patricia Krieger Grossi 10. Conclusion: Black life in the Americas: Economic Resources, Cultural Endowment, and Communal Solidarity    Carl James

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.9.2017
• Reihe/Serie: Perspectives from Social Economics
• Reihe/Serie: Perspectives from Social Economics
• Zusatzinfo: XXXV, 230 p. 5 illus.
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
• Schlagworte: African Communities League • Alternative Economies • black capitalism • black culture • Black lives matter • Booker T. Washington • Civil Rights Movement • Human Economy • Jim Crow laws • NAACP • Nation of Islam • Slavery • social enterprise models • Social Entrepreneurship • US employment • W.E.B. Du Bois • women and markets
• ISBN-10: 1-137-60047-0 / 1137600470
• ISBN-13: 978-1-137-60047-9 / 9781137600479