The Business of Black Power (eBook, ePUB)

Community Development, Capitalism, and Corporate Responsibility in Postwar America
Redaktion: Warren Hill, Laura; Rabig, Julia

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Abingdon Press
• Seitenzahl: 354
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781782047582
• Artikelnr.: 56407129

Autorenporträt

Laura Warren Hill, Julia Rabig

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Introduction - Laura Warren Hill and Julia Rabig 1. Toward
a History of the Business of Black Power - Laura Warren Hill and Julia
Rabig Part One: Black Capitalism in Pursuit of Black Freedom 2. FIGHTing
for the Soul of Black Capitalism: Struggles for Black Economic Development
in Postrebellion Rochester - Laura Warren Hill 3. A McDonald's That
Reflects the Soul of a People: Hough Area Development Corporation and
Community Development in Cleveland - Nishani Franzier Part Two: Selling
Women, Culture, and Black Power 4. Black (Buying) Power: The Story of
Essence Magazine - Alexis Pauline Gumbs 5. Creating a Multicultural Soul:
Avon, Corporate Social Responsibility, and Race in the 1970s - Lindsey
Feitz Part Three: The Business of Black Power in City and Suburb 6. From
Landless to Landlords: Black Power, Black Capitalism, and the Co-optation
of Detroit's Tenants' Rights Movement, 1964-69 - David Goldberg 7. "Gilding
the Ghetto" and Debates over Chicago's Gautreaux Program - Andrea Gill
Part Four: Community Development Corporations and the Business of Black
Power Policymaking 8. "What We Need Is Brick and Mortar": Race, Gender, and
Early Leadership of the Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation - Brian
Purnell 9. "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. List of Contributors Index