Author: Publisher:
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Category : African American men
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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The Economic Progress of Black Men in America
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American men
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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The Economic Progress of Black Men in America
Author: June O'NeillPublisher:
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Category : African American men
Languages : en
Pages : 172
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African Americans in the U.S. Economy
Author: Cecilia ConradPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN: 9780742543782
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
The forty-three chapters in African Americans in the U.S. Economy focus on various aspects of the economic status of African Americans, past and present. Taken together, these essays present two related themes: first, when it comes to economics, race matters; second, racial economic discrimination and inequality persist despite the optimistic predictions of standard economic analysis that racial discrimination cannot thrive in a free-market economy. Visit our website for sample chapters!
The Economic Progress of Black Men in America
Author: United States Commission on Civil RightsPublisher:
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Category : African American men
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Economic Progress of Black Men in America
Author: USA Commission on Civil RightsPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages :
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Blacks and the Quest for Economic Equality
Author: James W. ButtonPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271056649
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
The civil rights movement of the 1960s improved the political and legal status of African Americans, but the quest for equality in employment and economic well-being has lagged behind. Blacks are more than twice as likely as whites to be employed in lower-paying service jobs or to be unemployed, are three times as likely to live in poverty, and have a median household income barely half of that for white households. What accounts for these disparities, and what possibilities are there for overcoming obstacles to black economic progress? This book seeks answers to these questions through a combined quantitative and qualitative study of six municipalities in Florida. Factors impeding the quest for equality include employer discrimination, inadequate education, increasing competition for jobs from white females and Latinos, and a lack of transportation, job training, affordable childcare, and other sources of support, which makes it difficult for blacks to compete effectively. Among factors aiding in the quest is the impact of black political power in enhancing opportunities for African Americans in municipal employment. The authors conclude by proposing a variety of ameliorative measures: strict enforcement of antidiscrimination laws; public policies to provide disadvantaged people with a good education, adequate shelter and food, and decent jobs; and self-help efforts by blacks to counter self-destructive attitudes and activities.
Collective Courage
Author: Jessica Gordon NembhardPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271064269
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
In Collective Courage, Jessica Gordon Nembhard chronicles African American cooperative business ownership and its place in the movements for Black civil rights and economic equality. Not since W. E. B. Du Bois’s 1907 Economic Co-operation Among Negro Americans has there been a full-length, nationwide study of African American cooperatives. Collective Courage extends that story into the twenty-first century. Many of the players are well known in the history of the African American experience: Du Bois, A. Philip Randolph and the Ladies' Auxiliary to the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, Nannie Helen Burroughs, Fannie Lou Hamer, Ella Jo Baker, George Schuyler and the Young Negroes’ Co-operative League, the Nation of Islam, and the Black Panther Party. Adding the cooperative movement to Black history results in a retelling of the African American experience, with an increased understanding of African American collective economic agency and grassroots economic organizing. To tell the story, Gordon Nembhard uses a variety of newspapers, period magazines, and journals; co-ops’ articles of incorporation, minutes from annual meetings, newsletters, budgets, and income statements; and scholarly books, memoirs, and biographies. These sources reveal the achievements and challenges of Black co-ops, collective economic action, and social entrepreneurship. Gordon Nembhard finds that African Americans, as well as other people of color and low-income people, have benefitted greatly from cooperative ownership and democratic economic participation throughout the nation’s history.
Never Together
Author: Peter TeminPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316516741
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
An inclusive economic history of America describing two centuries of American racial conflicts since the Constitution was written.
An American Dilemma
Author: Gunnar MyrdalPublisher:
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 800
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The Negro in the South
Author: Booker T. WashingtonPublisher: Good Press
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 97
Book Description
This 1907 work is filled with great historical information and contains four lectures by Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois. Washington's first two lectures discuss African Americans' economic development during and after slavery. At the same time, Du Bois' two lectures treat the American South in more general terms.