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Political Black Girl Magic explores black women's experiences as
mayors in American cities. The editor and contributors to this
comprehensive volume examine black female mayoral campaigns and
elections where race and gender are a factor-and where deracialized
campaigns have garnered candidate support from white as well as
Hispanic and Asian American voters. Chapters also consider how
Black female mayors govern, from discussions of their pursuit of
economic growth and how they use their power to enact positive
reforms to the challenges they face that inhibit their abilities to
cater to neglected communities. Case studies in this
interdisciplinary volume include female mayors in Atlanta,
Baltimore, Charlotte, Chicago, Compton, and Washington, DC, among
other cities, along with discussion of each official's political
context. Covering mayors from the 1960s to the present, Political
Black Girl Magic identifies the most significant obstacles black
women have faced as mayors and mayoral candidates, and seeks to
understand how race, gender, or the combination of both affected
them. Contributors: Andrea Benjamin, Nadia E. Brown, Pearl K. Dowe,
Christina Greer, Precious Hall, Valerie C. Johnson, Yolanda Jones,
Lauren King, Angela K. Lewis-Maddox, Minion K.C. Morrison, Marcella
Mulholland, Stephanie Y. Pink-Harper, Kelly Briana Richardson,
Emmitt Y. Riley, III, Ashley Robertson Preston, Taisha Saintil,
Jamil Scott, Fatemeh Shafiei, James Lance Taylor, LaRaven Temoney,
Linda Trautman, and the editor
Political Black Girl Magic explores black women's experiences as
mayors in American cities. The editor and contributors to this
comprehensive volume examine black female mayoral campaigns and
elections where race and gender are a factor-and where deracialized
campaigns have garnered candidate support from white as well as
Hispanic and Asian American voters. Chapters also consider how
Black female mayors govern, from discussions of their pursuit of
economic growth and how they use their power to enact positive
reforms to the challenges they face that inhibit their abilities to
cater to neglected communities. Case studies in this
interdisciplinary volume include female mayors in Atlanta,
Baltimore, Charlotte, Chicago, Compton, and Washington, DC, among
other cities, along with discussion of each official's political
context. Covering mayors from the 1960s to the present, Political
Black Girl Magic identifies the most significant obstacles black
women have faced as mayors and mayoral candidates, and seeks to
understand how race, gender, or the combination of both affected
them. Contributors: Andrea Benjamin, Nadia E. Brown, Pearl K. Dowe,
Christina Greer, Precious Hall, Valerie C. Johnson, Yolanda Jones,
Lauren King, Angela K. Lewis-Maddox, Minion K.C. Morrison, Marcella
Mulholland, Stephanie Y. Pink-Harper, Kelly Briana Richardson,
Emmitt Y. Riley, III, Ashley Robertson Preston, Taisha Saintil,
Jamil Scott, Fatemeh Shafiei, James Lance Taylor, LaRaven Temoney,
Linda Trautman, and the editor
Knowledge-making in the field of alternative economies has limited
the inclusion of Black and racialized people's experience. In
Beyond Racial Capitalism the goal is close that gap in development
through a detailed analysis of cases in about a dozen countries
where Black people live and turn to co-operatives to manage
systemic exclusion. Most cases focus on how people use group
methodology for social finance. However, financing is not the sole
objective for many of the Black people who engage in collective
business forms; it is about the collective and the making of a
Black social economy. Systemic racism and anti-Black exclusion
create an environment where pooling resources, in kind and money,
becomes a way to cope and to resist an oppressive system. This book
examines co-operatives in the context of racial capitalism-a
concept of political scientist Cedric J. Robinson's that has
meaning for the African diaspora who must navigate, often secretly
and in groups, the landmines in business and society. Understanding
business exclusion in the various cases enables appreciation of the
civic contributions carried out by excluded racial minorities.
These social innovations by Black people living outside of Africa
who build co-operative economies go largely unnoticed. If they are
noted, they are demoted to an "informal" activity and rationalized
as having limited potential to bring about social change. The sheer
determination of Black diaspora people to organize and build
co-operatives that are explicitly anti-racist and rooted in mutual
aid and the collective is an important lesson in making business
ethical and inclusive.
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