“Communities with Cooperatives, not Communities of Cooperatives”
The idea of Las Indias is that it is a community with cooperative businesses, not a community of cooperatives.
history of black cooperatives
Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Thought and Practice
Collective Courage has enabled all of us to reclaim a part of our humane past (and present) that can do that just that; may many others, from many cultural loyalties, draw from their own cooperative histories with the same lucidity and resolve.