The business of Black power [electronic resource] : community development, capitalism, and corporate responsibility in postwar America / edited by Laura Warren Hill and Julia Rabig.
Hill, Laura Warren.; Rabig, Julia.
2012
E185.615 .B87 2012eb
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Title The business of Black power [electronic resource] : community development, capitalism, and corporate responsibility in postwar America / edited by Laura Warren Hill and Julia Rabig.
ISBN 9781580467759 (electronic book)
1580464033
9781580464031
Publication Details Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, c2012.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (viii, 343 p.)
Call Number E185.615 .B87 2012eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 323.1196/073
Summary 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 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 the wake 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 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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.

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