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- Provides the first ever in-depth exploration of the Black social economy
- Features case studies from Latin America, the Caribbean, and North America
- Explores the means through which Black communities have formed alternative socio-economic communities
Part of the book series: Perspectives from Social Economics (PSE)
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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.
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
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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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Black Social Economy in the Americas
Book Subtitle: Exploring Diverse Community-Based Markets
Editors: Caroline Shenaz Hossein
Series Title: Perspectives from Social Economics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-60047-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-60278-7Published: 19 September 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-93433-1Published: 16 December 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-60047-9Published: 18 September 2017
Series ISSN: 2662-396X
Series E-ISSN: 2662-3978
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXV, 230
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations
Topics: Heterodox Economics, Cultural Economics, Urban Economics