Online Liviana Conference: Fourth Session Organized by Dr. Caroline Shenaz Hossein

Nov 3rd’s Panel of the Online Liviana Conference was organized by Dr. Caroline Shenaz Hossein of York University, and entitled. The Black Social Economy: Women and Cooperativism in the Americas and Beyond.

Collective organizing among Black women is not new. It has been a way of life long before alternative economics have taken hold to counter political and economic exclusion in society. In 2020 during the Covid19 lockdown we see the African diaspora, many of them women taking to the streets in protest about the pervasive inequities and anti-Black racism. The concepts of collectivity, cooperation and self-help are key to human life because Black women are vested in ensuring we have equity and a moral conscience in the way we live. The papers in this panel are comparative and each author examines the political, social and economic implications when Black women collectively come together to organize in the Americas and beyond.

Video of the complete session can be viewed here. Press play in the bottom left corner of the video’s screen.

Dr. Hossein begins at approximately minute 11:45.

Additional information about this session of the conference can be read here.
Additional Information about the Liviana Conference as a whole can be found here.