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Title:
The business of Black power : community development, capitalism, and corporate responsibility in postwar America / edited by Laura Warren Hill and Julia Rabig.
Publisher:
University of Rochester Press,
Copyright Date:
c2012
Description:
viii, 343 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Black power--Economic aspects--United States.
African American business enterprises--History--20th century.
African Americans--Economic conditions--20th century.
Other Authors:
Hill, Laura Warren.
Rabig, Julia.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
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.
ISBN:
1580464408 (paperback)
9781580464406 (paperback)
1580464033 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781580464031 (hardcover : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)753627075
LCCN:
2012000599
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

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