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The business of Black power : community development, capitalism, and corporate responsibility in postwar America /

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 venture...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Hill, Laura Warren, Rabig, Julia
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, ©2012.
Colección:JSTOR EBA.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.