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1 online resource |
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Perspectives from social economics |
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Perspectives from social economics.
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| Contents |
Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; Biographies of Authors; List of Figure; List of Tables; Chapter 1: Daring to Conceptualize the Black Social Economy; 1.1 Addressing the Lack of a Black Perspective in the Social Economy; 1.2 Liberating Social Economy History; 1.3 Distinguishing Black Community-Based Economies; 1.4 Organization of Book; Works Cited; Chapter 2: Revisiting Ideas and Ideologies in African-American Social Economy: From the Past Forward; 2.1 Economic Ideas of Early African-American Thinkers; 2.2 Economic Ideas of the Civil Rights and Post-Civil Rights Period |
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2.3 Contemporary Scenario2.4 Conclusion; Works Cited; Chapter 3: Drawing on the Lived Experience of African Canadians: Using Money Pools to Combat Social and Business Exclusion; 3.1 Relevance of Money Pools; 3.2 Methods; 3.3 Peer-to-Peer Lending and Black Canadians; 3.4 Money Pools Helping Black People; 3.5 Who Are the Banker Ladies?; 3.6 Misperceptions About Money Pools; 3.7 Why People Participate in Collective Banks; 3.8 A Personal Reflection: A Trinidadian-Canadian's Use of Susu; 3.9 Carrying on the Susu Legacy; 3.10 Conclusion; Works Cited |
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Chapter 4: The Social Economy in a Jamaican Perspective4.1 The Social Economy in Jamaica; 4.2 The Jamaican Social Economy: From Maroons to Cooperatives and Rastafari Social Movements; 4.2.1 From Maroons to Free Villages; 4.2.2 Marcus Garvey and Rastafari: Bobo Ashanti, Nyabinghi, and Twelve Tribes of Israel; 4.3 State-Led Economy: 1970s; 4.4 Social Entrepreneurship and Its Contribution in Jamaica; 4.5 Defining the Social Economy and Social Entrepreneurship; 4.6 Typology of Social Enterprises in Jamaica; 4.7 Social Enterprises in Jamaica; 4.8 Social Enterprise Motivation and Core Values |
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4.9 Policy Implications4.10 Conclusion; Works Cited; Chapter 5: Building Economic Solidarity: Caribbean ROSCAs in Jamaica, Guyana, and Haiti; 5.1 Black Women in the Social Economy; 5.2 Methods; 5.3 ROSCAs: Rooted in Community Development; 5.4 Jamaica's Partner Banks: Supporting Community Development; 5.5 Guyana's Boxhand: Combating Business Exclusion; 5.6 Haitian Banking Collectives: A Democratic Option; 5.7 Conclusion; Works Cited; Chapter 6: The Everyday Social Economy of Afro-Descendants in the Chocó, Colombia; 6.1 A Community Store: Production and the Failure of a Black Social Enterprise |
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6.2 A Burial Society: Mortuary Ritual, Savings, and Collective Funeral Insurance6.3 Electrical Infrastructure: Work and Collective Labor; 6.4 A Party and the Gift: Exchange and Collective Politics; 6.5 Displaced Black Communities: Self-help and the Social Economy in Motion; 6.6 Conclusion: Toward an Everyday Black Social Economy; Works Cited; Chapter 7: The Social Economy of Afro-Argentines and African Immigrants in Buenos Aires; 7.1 Situating Race in the Social Economy; 7.2 An Overview of Past and Present Afro-descendant and African Populations in Buenos Aires |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed April 10, 2023) |
| In |
Springer eBooks |
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Black people -- America -- Economic conditions
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Business enterprises, Black -- America
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Black people -- America -- Social conditions
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- General.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Reference.
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Black people -- Economic conditions
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Black people -- Social conditions
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Business enterprises, Black
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America
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hossein, Caroline Shenaz, 1971- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781137600479 |
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1137600470 |
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