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- Title
Principles and Strategies for Reconstruction: Models of African American Community-Based Cooperative Economic Development.
- Authors
Nembhard, Jessica Gordon
- Abstract
Community-based, cooperatively owned enterprises are characterized by greater community input and participation in the planning, development, and governance of commercially viable, socially responsible businesses that generate jobs, income, and wealth-producing assets. African Americans have a strong but hidden history of cooperative ownership in the face of market failure and racial discrimination. Cooperatives are democratically owned and governed businesses, whose members pool resources and share risk and profits. This research contributes information about viable strategies for economic renewal, particularly to rebuild New Orleans and the Gulf Coast in ways that retain and benefit long-term and low-income residents of color.
- Subjects
GULF Coast (U.S.); UNITED States; CRISIS management; COOPERATION -- Societies, etc.; AFRICAN American business enterprises; ECONOMIC geography; SOCIAL responsibility of business
- Publication
Harvard Journal of African American Public Policy, 2006, Vol 12, p39
- ISSN
1081-0463
- Publication type
Article