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A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues What You Can Do Right Now to Help the Black Community.

This book recommends that you spend a portion of your annual household budget with Black-owned companies. If more money is spent at Black-owned businesses, those companies can grow and create more jobs for Black people. Rogers also proposes White people make large savings deposits into Black-owned b...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rogers, Steven S.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2021.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Preface: Social Unrest, Protests, andthe Podcasts
  • Notes
  • Introduction
  • Notes
  • Chapter 1 Why Should You Trust My Advice? Who Am I?
  • The Anatomy of Race Men and Race Women
  • Race Men and Women in History
  • Contemporary Race Men and Women
  • The Makings of a Race Man
  • A Race Man in Business
  • Taking a Stand from Within
  • The Importance of Being a Philanthropist
  • Paying It Forward
  • Notes
  • Chapter 2 How the Wealth Gap Was Created
  • The Roots of Black American Poverty
  • The End of Bondage
  • Black Codes
  • Home Ownership and Wealth Creation
  • Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HOLC)
  • Keeping Suburbs White
  • Notes
  • Chapter 3 Donate to HBCUs
  • HBCUs Financial Need
  • Endowments
  • HBCU History
  • Two Lincoln Universities
  • Recent Donations
  • How to Make Donations
  • Schools That Are Not Colleges
  • Notes
  • Chapter 4 Deposit Money intoBlack-Owned Banks
  • Black-Owned Banks versus White-Owned Banks
  • Mortgages
  • Contract Selling
  • Financial Apartheid
  • Freedman's Bank
  • Maggie L. Walker
  • Banking Black
  • How to Make Deposits
  • Companies
  • Individuals
  • Notes
  • Chapter 5 Support Black-Owned Businesses
  • The Importance of Black-Owned Businesses
  • Race in Business
  • More Than Employers
  • Black in Print
  • A Brief History of Black Entrepreneurship in the United States
  • White Destruction of Black Businesses
  • Supporting Black-Owned Restaurants
  • White Firms' Commitment
  • How to Find Black-Owned Businesses: Become a Customer
  • Basic Search Approach
  • National Search Tools
  • Professional Trade Associations
  • Regional Search Tools
  • Local Search Tools
  • Notes
  • Chapter 6 Write a Letter Supporting Reparations
  • Reparations History
  • The U.S. Precedent of Paying Out Reparations
  • HEAD: Making Reparations Work
  • Notes
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Discussion Questions
  • Acknowledgments
  • About the Author
  • Index
  • EULA