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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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