Mutual aid is not new. It’s a long-standing practice of Black communities. “Mutual aid is just something that we’ve always done,” says Caroline Shenaz Hossein, a professor in York University’s social science department. “Crowdfunding, the sharing economy—I mean, these are all these nicknames that white people come up with to make it look like it’s new, and it’s never new.”

Join us for the next event in Ujima's #BlackTrust series with Dr. Caroline Hossein: The Black Social Economy: Valuing the Informal.

October 26th, 2020.
6:30pm 8:30pm EST

Dr. Caroline Shenaz Hossein is interviewed by the BBC concerning how financial access and security in America has become an increasingly pressing subject of discussion in 2020.

Dr. Caroline Shenaz Hossein, an associate professor in York University's business and society department, has won the inaugural Suraj Mal and Shyama Devi Agarwal Book Prize for Politicized Microfinance: Money, Power and Violence in the Black Americas.