Face value
Subtitle: the entwined histories of money and race in America
By: Michael O'Malley
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press; University of Chicago Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780226629377
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Race relations; Equality; Money; Monetary policy; Public opinion; Economic conditions; African Americans; Economic aspects; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: This new black flesh coin; title: Banking on slavery; title: Rags, blacking, and paper soldiers; title: Gold money and the constitution of man; title: A bank in human form; title: Epilogue: words and bonds.