EAN: 9781349934331

PERSPECTIVES FROM SOCIAL ECONOMICS THE BLACK ...

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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