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1 online resource (viii, 343 pages) |
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JSTOR EBA
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| Contents |
Toward a history of the business of Black power / Laura Warren Hill and Julia Rabig -- Fighting for the soul of Black capitalism : struggles for Black economic development in postrebellion Rochester / Laura Warren Hill -- A McDonald's that reflects the soul of a people : Hough Area Development Corporation and community development in Cleveland / Nishani Frazier -- Black (buying) power : the story of Essence magazine / Alexis Pauline Gumbs -- Creating a multicultural soul : Avon, corporate social responsibility, and race in the 1970s / Lindsey Feitz -- From landless to landlords : Black power, Black capitalism, and the co-optation of Detroit's tenants' rights movement, 1964-69 / David Goldberg -- "Gilding the ghetto" and debates over Chicago's Gautreaux program / Andrea Gill -- "What we need is brick and mortar" : race, gender, and early leadership of the Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation / Brian Purnell -- "A fight and a question" : community development corporations, machine politics, and -- Corporate philanthropy in the long urban crisis / Julia Rabig -- Conclusion : whose Black power? : the business of Black power and Black power's business / Michael O. West -- Epilogue : whatever happened to the business of Black power? / Robert E. Weems Jr |
| Summary |
The Business of Black Power emphasizes the centrality of economic goals to the larger black freedom movement and explores the myriad forms of business development in the Black power era. This volume charts a new course for Black power studies and business history, exploring both the business ventures that Black power fostered and the impact of Black power on the nation's business world. Black activists pressed business leaders, corporations, and various levels of government into supporting a range of economic development ventures, from Black entrepreneurship, to grassroots experiments in economic self-determination, to Indigenous attempts to rebuild inner-city markets in the wake of disinvestment. They pioneered new economic and development strategies, often in concert with corporate executives and public officials. Yet these same actors also engaged in fierce debates over the role of business in strengthening the movement, and some African Americans outright rejected capitalism or collaboration with business. The ten scholars in this collection bring fresh analysis to this complex intersection of African American and business history to reveal how Black power advocates, or those purporting a Black power agenda, engaged business to advance their economic, political, and social goals. They show the business of Black power taking place in the streets, boardrooms, journals and periodicals, corporations, courts, and housing projects of America. In short, few were left untouched by the influence of this movement. -- Publisher description |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Black power -- Economic aspects -- United States
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African American business enterprises -- History -- 20th century
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African Americans -- Economic conditions -- 20th century
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HISTORY -- Modern -- 20th Century.
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African American business enterprises
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African Americans -- Economic conditions
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Unternehmen
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Wirtschaftsentwicklung
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Black power
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Entrepreneurship.
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USA.
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KMU.
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Wirtschaftsförderung.
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Regionalentwicklung.
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Soziale Bewegung.
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Schwarze.
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21st century, c 2000 to c 2100.
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Economic history.
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Ethnic studies.
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History of specific companies / corporate history.
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History of the Americas.
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Relating to ethnic minorities & groups.
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United States of America, USA.
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Economics.
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United States
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USA.
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Schwarze.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Aufsatzsammlung.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hill, Laura Warren
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Rabig, Julia
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| ISBN |
9781580467759 |
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158046775X |
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