Collective Courage: A History of Africana Cooperative Thought and Practice

Africa World Now Project · Nov 1, 2018 · 1h 3m

The histories of cooperative practice and ownership of Africana communities have a long history, particularly when we account for an Africana human agency in the face of hyper-exploitation and hyper-extractive logics and practice of racial capitalism. These systems and logic encompass the privatization and monopoly over agriculture, manufacturing, finance, housing, healthcare, land, water, and other natural resources, etc. Articulated through plantation/neo-plantation-based economic systems and power relations, aligned with industry and codified in the state and/or state-sanctioned violence…