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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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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