Black Female Entrepreneurs in Jamaica : Defying the (In)visible Barriers and Succeeding
department or school: Arts, Faculty of
department or school: Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice, Institute for
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degree campus: UBCV
creator: Hamilton, Ann-Marie
issued: 2021-05-27T22:24:19Z
issued: 2019-12
description: This paper examines the factors that affect Black female entrepreneurs in Jamaica through the lens of slavery, colonialism, gender, race, class and the impact of the International Monetary Fund’s predatory neoliberal policies. In addition, the essay includes a literature review that shows the impact of these factors on Black female business owners in the Caribbean and the US, but the US is not included in analysis of the IMF. While secondary and primary sources were used, the primary sources produced more up-to-date and relevant information for this paper, particularly for Jamaica. The research portrayed that slavery and colonialism laid the foundation on which gender, race and class is structured for Black female business owners today. It also showed the consequences of these imposed systematic structures on the business women in the informal and formal sectors. Additionally, the essay illustrated that the predatory neoliberal policies of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has had adverse effects on the economy which in turn impacts the establishment and growth of Black female entrepreneurship. The essay demonstrates in the form of case studies the various successful encounter measures that the group of informal commercial importers from the informal sector and three entrepreneurs from the formal arena, deployed. This feat was achieved partly because the government implemented a monetary policy that created a positive economy.
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note: 1 Black Female Entrepreneurs in Jamaica: Defying the (In)visible Barriers and Succeeding Ann-Marie Hamilton University of British Columbia 2 Abstract This paper examines the factors that affect Black female entrepreneurs in Jamaica through the lens of slavery, colonialism, gender, race, class and the impact of the International Monetary Fund’s predatory neoliberal policies. In addition, the essay includes a literature review that shows the impact of these factors on Black female business owners in the Caribbean and the US, but the US is not included in analysis of the IMF. While secondary and primary sources were used, the primary sources produced more up-to-date and relevant information for this paper, particularly for Jamaica. The research portrayed that slavery and colonialism laid the foundation on which gender, race and class is structured for Black female business owners today. It also showed the consequences of these imposed systematic structures on the business women in the informal and formal sectors. Additionally, the essay illustrated that the predatory neoliberal policies of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has had adverse effects on the economy which in turn impacts the establishment and growth of Black female entrepreneurship. The essay demonstrates in the form of case studies the various successful encounter measures that the group of informal commercial importers from the informal sector and three entrepreneurs from the formal arena, deployed. This feat was achieved partly because the government implemented a monetary policy that created a positive economy. . 3 Introduction In this period of our history there has never been more academic discourse, public opinion and media coverage about Black female empowerment in the Global South and the contributions that Black female entrepreneurs can or are making to their economies. International lending institutions and governments from the Global North continue to theorise about how to assist non-industr…
has type: Article
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0398199
language: eng
peer review status: Reviewed
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
rights: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
rights URI: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
scholar level: Graduate
is part of: University of British Columbia. GRSJ 510
subject: Gender, Race, Class, Sexuality, Socio-economics, Social Justice, Globalization, Capitalism, IMF
subject: Gender
subject: Race
subject: Class
subject: Sexuality
subject: Socio-economics
subject: Social Justice
subject: Globalization
subject: Capitalism
subject: IMF
type: Text
identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/78476