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

Hill, Laura Warren (EDT); Rabig, Julia (EDT)

ISBN 10: 1580464408 / ISBN 13: 9781580464406

Published by University of Rochester Press, 2012

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Business of Black Power : Community Development, Capitalism, and Corporate Responsibility in Postwar America
• Publisher: University of Rochester Press
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1580464408
• ISBN 13: 9781580464406
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Laura Warren Hill is assistant professor of history at Bloomfield College. Julia Rabig is a lecturer at Dartmouth College.