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The Business of Black Power - Community Development, Capitalism, and Corporate Responsibility in Postwar America (Paperback)
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The Business of Black Power - Community Development, Capitalism, and Corporate Responsibility in Postwar America (Paperback)
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Explores business development in the Black Power era and the
centrality of economic goals to the larger black freedom movement.
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 seven
scholars in this collection bring fresh analysis to this complex
intersection of African Americanand 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 the
streets, 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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