The business of Black power
Subtitle: community development, capitalism, and corporate responsibility in postwar America
By: edited by Laura Warren Hill and Julia Rabig
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Rochester, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 343
ISBN-13: 9781580464031
Subjects: African American business enterprises; African Americans; Black power; Economic conditions; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Toward a history of the business of Black power / Laura Warren Hill and Julia Rabig; title: Fighting for the soul of Black capitalism : struggles for Black economic development in postrebellion Rochester / Laura Warren Hill; title: A McDonald's that reflects the soul of a people : Hough Area Development Corporation and community development in Cleveland / Nishani Frazier; title: Black (buying) power : the story of Essence magazine / Alexis Pauline Gumbs; title: Creating a multicultural soul : Avon, corporate social responsibility, and race in the 1970s / Lindsey Feitz; title: From landless to landlords : Black power, Black capitalism, and the co-optation of Detroit's tenants' rights movement, 1964-69 / David Goldberg; title: "Gilding the ghetto" and debates over Chicago's Gautreaux program / Andrea Gill; title: "What we need is brick and mortar" : race, gender, and early leadership of the Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation / Brian Purnell; title: "A fight and a question" : community development corporations, machine politics, and; title: Corporate philanthropy in the long urban crisis / Julia Rabig; title: Conclusion : whose Black power? : the business of Black power and Black power's business / Michael O. West; title: Epilogue : whatever happened to the business of Black power? / Robert E. Weems Jr.