Banking on freedom : black women in U.S. finance before the New Deal /

Shennette Garrett-Scott explores black financial innovation and its transformative impact on U.S. capitalism through the story of the St. Luke Bank in Richmond, Virginia: the first and only bank run by black women. Banking on Freedom offers an unparalleled account of how black women carved out econo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Garrett-Scott, Shennette (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, 2019
Colección:Columbia studies in the history of U.S. capitalism.
Temas:
Women in finance > United States > History.
African American bankers > History.
African American women > History.
Women bankers > United States > History.
African American banks > History.
Femmes dans les finances > États-Unis > Histoire.
Banquiers noirs américains > Histoire.
Noires américaines > Histoire.
Banquières > États-Unis > Histoire.
Banques noires américaines > Histoire.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Finance.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economic History.
African American bankers
African American banks
African American women
Women bankers
Women in finance
United States
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • "I am yet waitin" : African American women and free labor banking experiments in the emancipation-era South, 1860s-1900
  • "Who is so helpless as the Negro woman?" : the independent order of St. Luke and the quest for economic security, 1856-1902
  • "Let us have a bank" : St. Luke Penny Savings Bank, economic activism, and state regulation, 1903 to World War I
  • Rituals of risk and respectability : gendered economic practices, credit, and debt to World War I
  • "A good, strong, hustling woman" : financing the new Negro in the new era, 1920-1929
  • Epilogue.

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