Business of Black Power Community Development, Capitalism, and Corporate Responsibility in Postwar America

Name: Business of Black Power Community Development, Capitalism, and Corporate Responsibility in Postwar America
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ISBN: 9781580464406

ISBN-10: 1580464408

ISBN-13: 9781580464406

Edition: 2012

Authors: Laura Warren Hill, Julia Rabig

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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…

Book details

List price: $32.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Publication date: 6/1/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 354
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.94" long x 0.76" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction




Toward a History of the Business of Black Power




Black Capitalism in Pursuit of Black Freedom



Fighting for the Soul of Black Capitalism: Struggles for Black Economic Development in Postrebellion Rochester




A McDonald's that Reflects the Soul of a People: Hought Area Development Corporation and Community Development in Cleveland




Selling Women, Culture, and Black Power



Black (Buying) Power: The Story of Essence Magazine




Creating a Multicultural Soul: Avon, Corporate Social Responsibility, and Race in the 1970s




The Business of Black Power in City and Suburb



From Landless to Landlords: Black Power, Black Capitalism, and the Co-optation of Detroit's Tenants' Rights Movement, 1964-69




"Gilding the Ghetto" and Debates over Chicago's Gautreaux Program




Community Development Corporations and the Business of Black Power Policymaking



"What we Need is Brick and Mortar": Race, Gender, and Early Leadership of the Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation




"A Fight and a Question": Community Development Corporations, Machine Politics, and Corporate Philanthropy in the Long Urban Crisis



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