The Black Social Economy: A Live Broadcast

Dr. Caroline Hossein studies what she calls the Black Social Economy, a term used to define the ways that Black communities have created alternative economies and performed mutual aid across generations through informal processes and systems to preserve and create wealth.

The Black Social Economy offers alternatives to mainstream markets. Black communities across the world create meaningful livelihoods by forming their own economic arrangements, autonomous from capitalist and exploitative labor practices. Black ways of being, analysis and strategies for surviving and thriving have been compulsively regarded as ‘informal,’ though they have their own histories, traditions and innovations.

Dr. Hossein’s research works to excavate a space of study, liberation and recognition within these traditions in an effort to shift our conversations around finance and economy.

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Presented by The Boston Ujima Project