Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice
Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice
Nembhard, Jessica Gordon
product information
Condition: New, UPC: 9780271062174, Publication Date: Thu, May 1, 2014, Type: Paperback ,
join & start selling
description
sica Gordon Nembhard chronicles African American cooperative business ownership and its place in the movements for Black civil rights and economic equality. Not since W. E. B. Du Bois's 1907 Economic Co-operation Among Negro Americans has there been a full-length, nationwide study of African American cooperatives. Collective Courage extends that story into the twenty-first century. Many of the players are well known in the history of the African American experience: Du Bois, A. Philip Randolph and the Ladies' Auxiliary to the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, Nannie Helen Burroughs, Fannie Lou Hamer, Ella Jo Baker, George Schuyler and the Young Negroes' Co-operative League, the Nation of Islam, and the Black Panther Party. Adding the cooperative movement to Black history results in a retelling of the African American experience, with an increased understanding of African American collective economic agency and grassroots economic organizing.

To tell the story, Gordon Nembhard uses a variety of newspapers, period magazines, and journals; co-ops' articles of incorporation, minutes from annual meetings, newsletters, budgets, and income statements; and scholarly books, memoirs, and biographies. These sources reveal the achievements and challenges of Black co-ops, collective economic action, and social entrepreneurship. Gordon Nembhard finds that African Americans, as well as other people of color and low-income people, have benefitted greatly from cooperative ownership and democratic economic participation throughout the nation's history.

reviews

Be the first to write a review

member goods

No member items were found under this heading.

notems store

The War on Normal People: ...

by Yang, Andrew

Paperback /Paperback

$12.74

Year Zero to Economic Miracle: ...

by Widder, Lynnette

Paperback /Paperback

$60.00

Initial Conditions

by Benesh, Julie

Paperback /Paperback

listens & views

THOUGHTLESS

by MAN IS THE BASTARD

COMPACT DISC

out of stock

$10.99

DOO WOP AROUND THE CHRISTMAS ...

by MIGHTY ECHOES

COMPACT DISC

out of stock

$18.49

MUSIC FROM MERKIN MANOR

by MERKIN

VINYL LP

out of stock

$28.49

LIVE AT JAZZFEST 2016

by BRETON SOUND

COMPACT DISC

out of stock

$19.99

Return Policy

All sales are final

Shipping

No special shipping considerations available.
Shipping fees determined at checkout.