The Business of Black Power
Community Development, Capitalism, and Corporate Responsibility in Postwar America
- 354 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
The Business of Black Power
Community Development, Capitalism, and Corporate Responsibility in Postwar America
About this book
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 forBlack 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 thewake 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 thestreets, boardrooms, journals and periodicals, corporations, courts, and housing projects of America. In short, few were left untouched by the influence of this movement. Laura Warren Hill is assistant professor of history at Bloomfield College. Julia Rabig is a lecturer at Dartmouth College.
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Table of contents
- Frontcover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Toward a History of the Business of Black Power
- Part One: Black Capitalism in Pursuit of Black Freedom
- Part Two: Selling Women, Culture, and Black Power
- Part Three: The Business of Black Power in City and Suburb
- Part Four: Community Development Corporations and the Business of Black Power Policymaking
- Conclusion: Whose Black Power? The Business of Black Power and Black Power’s Business
- Epilogue: Whatever Happened to the Business of Black Power?
- List of Contributors
- Index
- Backcover