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The Black Social Economy in the Americas

Exploring Diverse Community-Based Markets

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Editors:
  1. Caroline Shenaz Hossein

    1. York University, Toronto, Canada

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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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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxv
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  2. Daring to Conceptualize the Black Social Economy

    • Caroline Shenaz Hossein
    Pages 1-13

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

    • Sanjukta Banerji Bhattacharya
    Pages 15-39

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

    • Caroline Shenaz Hossein, Ginelle Skerritt
    Pages 41-58

  5. The Social Economy in a Jamaican Perspective

    • K’adamawe K’nife, Edward Dixon, Michael Marshall
    Pages 59-78

  6. Building Economic Solidarity: Caribbean ROSCAs in Jamaica, Guyana, and Haiti

    • Caroline Shenaz Hossein
    Pages 79-95

  7. The Everyday Social Economy of Afro-Descendants in the Chocó, Colombia

    • Daniel G. L. Tubb
    Pages 97-117

  8. The Social Economy of Afro-Argentines and African Immigrants in Buenos Aires

    • Prisca Gayles, Diane Ghogomu
    Pages 119-142

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

    • Tiffany Y. Boyd-Adams
    Pages 143-159

  10. The Quilombolas’ Refuge in Brazil: Social Economy, Communal Space, and Shared Identity

    • Simone Bohn, Patricia Krieger Grossi
    Pages 161-186

  11. Black Life in the Americas: Economic Resources, Cultural Endowment, and Communal Solidarity

    • Carl E. James
    Pages 187-201

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 203-230
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About this book

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.   

Editors and Affiliations

  • York University, Toronto, Canada

    Caroline Shenaz Hossein

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.   


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

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