The Black Social Economy in the Americas

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.   

1. Daring to Conceptualize the Black Social Economy.- 2. Revisiting Ideas and Ideologies in African American Social Economy: From the Past Forward.- 3. Drawing on the Lived Experience of African Canadians: Using Money Pools to Combat Social and Business Exclusion.- 4. The Social Economy in a Jamaican Perspective.- 5. Building Economic Solidarity: Caribbean ROSCAs in Jamaica, Guyana and Haiti.- 6. The Everyday Social Economy of Afro-descendants in the Chocó, Colombia.- 7. The Social Economy of Afro-Argentines and African Descendants in Buenos Aires.- 8. Commerce, Culture, and Community: African Brazilian Women Negotiating Their Social Economies.- 9. The Quilombolas’ Refuge in Brazil: Social Economy, Communal Space and Shared Identity.- 10. Conclusion: Black life in the Americas: Economic resources, cultural endowment, and communal solidarity.