Harris–Stowe State University

Racialized Dual Sovereignty and the Paradox of Federalism

Abstract This article re-conceptualizes American federalism as a racialized institutional order by advancing the theory of racialized dual sovereignty. Conventional federalism scholarship treats conflicts between state and federal authority as race-neutral disputes over jurisdict...

The Jar: Diasporic Finance in Everyday Practice, Black Women's Financial Solidarity, and Cooperative Survival in the Beauty Economy

Rotating savings and credit associations (ROSCAs) are central to African diasporic economic life, yet their contemporary operation within African American entrepreneurial sectors remains insufficiently examined. This article analyzes a cooperative financial practice known as the...