The Black Social Economy in the Americas: Exploring Diverse Community-Based Markets

ISBN-13: 9781137602787 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 230 str.

Caroline Shenaz Hossein

Opis

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.

Spis treści

1. Daring to Conceptualize the Black Social Economy

Caroline Shenaz Hossein

2. Revisiting Ideas and Ideologies in African American Social Economy: From the Past Forward

Sanjukta Banerji Bhattacharya

3. Drawing on the Lived Experience of African Canadians: Using Money Pools to Combat Social and Business Exclusion

Caroline Shenaz Hossein and Ginelle Skerritt

4. The Social Economy in a Jamaican Perspective

K’adamawe K’nife, Edward Dixon, and Michael Marshall

5. 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. Tubb

7. The Social Economy of Afro-Argentines and African Descendants in Buenos Aires

Prisca Gayles and Diane Ghogomu

8. Commerce, Culture, and Community: African Brazilian Women Negotiating Their Social Economies

Tiffany Y. Boyd-Adams

9. 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

O autorze

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.