Book description
In Collective Courage, Jessica 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…
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This book taught me that ancestral Intelligence doesn’t have to be “woo-woo.”
All around the world, communities have made magic by simply collaborating to survive. This book defies conventional wisdom by sharing the hidden history of cooperatives, where workers and customers own the businesses that serve them.
For decades, African Americans and other communities have pooled resources to do everything from freeing themselves from slavery, farming for food, and even creating media. I saw this firsthand.
By creating ways for people to pool and share resources, I saw how community-based platforms can value and defy the laws of economics. I…
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