Alternative Economics—A Missing Component in the African American Studies Curriculum

Teaching Public Policy and Democratic Community Economics to Black Undergraduate Students

Dados Bibliográficos

ID19002076
AutoresJessica Gordon Nembhard (University of Maryland, autor correspondente)
Ano2008
Volume38
Fascículo5
Páginas758-782
Data de publicação2008-02-05
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Black Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0021-9347 • E-ISSN: 1552-4566
EditoraSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0021934707310294
OpenAlexW2014387354
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas11
Referências citadas17

The author expands on questions about the place and role of economics and Black political economy in African American Studies by asking about what economic models are taught and how economic agency is taught. This article reiterates the importance of economic content in Africana Studies and proposes that even when economics is taught the focus is on poverty and theories about scarcity, competition, and discrimination without analyses of group economics, game theory, or alternative economic institutions. African American Studies curricula do not provide students with the methodological tools to theorize and apply Black political economic analysis. The article reviews the paucity of courses on alternative economic development and cooperative economics. The author reviews the history of Black alternative economic strategies and African American cooperative economic thought and practice. The article ends with definitions and concepts that can be included in Africana Studies curricula to teach students how to become economic development and policy analysts and economic change agents

Agency (philosophy) · Curriculum · Economic growth · Economics · Economics education · Higher education · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Poverty · Scarcity · Social science · Sociology · Economic Theory and Institutions · Economic Theory and Policy · Political Economy and Marxism