The Black Social Economy In The Americas: Exploring Diverse Community-based Markets (perspectives From Social Economics)
by Caroline Shenaz Hossein /
2017 / English / PDF
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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.
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.