African Americans in the U.S. economy / edited by Cecilia Conrad [and others].

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield, ©2005.
Description
xiv, 401 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

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    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • The international slave trade / Philip S. Foner
    • Africa, Europe, and the origins of uneven development: the role of slavery / William A. Darity Jr.
    • The critical role of African Americans in the development of the pre-Civil War U.S. economy / James B. Stewart
    • The black sharecropping system and its decline / Daniel Fusfield and Timothy Bates
    • The rise of the black industrial working class, 1915-1918 / Philip S. Foner
    • An uncertain tradition: blacks and unions, 1865-1925 / William Harris
    • The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters / Philip S. Foner
    • Civil rights and organized labor: the case of the United Steelworkers of America, 1948-1970 / James B. Stewart
    • Racial economic inequality and discrimination: conservative and liberal paradigms revisited / John Whitehead
    • Marxist theory of racism and racial inequality / Peter Bohmer
    • The crowding hypothesis / Timothy Bates and Daniel Fusfeld
    • "Keeping people in their place": the economics of violence / Mary C. King
    • The black political economy paradigm and the dynamics of racial economic inequality / James B. Stewart and Major Coleman
    • Race and gender differences in the U.S. labor market: the impact of educational attainment / Susan Williams McElroy
    • Persistent racial discrimination in the labor market / Patrick L. Mason
    • Racial inequality and African Americans' disadvantage in the credit and capital markets / Gary A. Dymski and Patrick L. Mason
    • Changes in the labor market status of black women, 1960-2000 / Cecilia A. Conrad
    • Single mother families in the black community: economic context and policies / Cecilia A. Conrad and Mary C. King
    • The racial wealth gap / Thomas M. Shapiro and Jessica L. Kenty-Drane
    • Globalization, the transformation of capital and the erosion of black and Latino living standards / Peter Dorman
    • Globalization and African Americans: a focus on public employment / Mary C. King
    • Immigration and African Americans / Steven Schulman and Robert C. Smith
    • African American intragroup inequality and corporate globalization / Jessica Gordon Nembhard, Steven C. Pitts, and Patrick L. Mason
    • Globalization, racism, and the expansion of the American penal system / Andrew Barlow
    • History of black capitalism / Manning Marable
    • Black-owned businesses: trends and prospects / Cecilia A. Conrad
    • Black-owned banks: past and present / Gary A. Dymski and Robert E. Weems Jr.
    • "Bling-bling" and other recent trends in African American consumerism / Robert A. Weems Jr.
    • A critical examination of the political economy of the hip-hop industry / Dipannita Basu
    • Black capitalism: self-help or self-delusion? / Earl Ofari Hutchinson
    • Black power: the struggle for parental choice in education / Howard Fuller
    • School choice: a desperate gamble / Louis Schubert
    • The black youth employment problem revisited / Michael A. Stoll
    • Employment and training solutions for the economically disadvantaged: an essay / Bernard E. Anderson
    • Racism in the U.S. welfare policy: a human rights issue / Linda Burnham
    • Past due: the African American quest for reparations / Robert Allen
    • The theory of restitution / Richard America
    • The economics of reparations / William A. Darity Jr. and Dania Frank
    • Inner-city economic development and revitalization: a community-building approach / John Whitehead, David Landes, and Jessica Gordon Nembhard
    • Combating gentrification through equitable development / Kalima Rose
    • The black church and community economic development / Shondrah Nash and Cedric Herring
    • Black patronage of black-owned businesses and black employment / Thomas D. Boston
    • African American athletes and urban revitalization: African American athletes as a funding source for inner-city investments / John Whitehead and James Stewart.
    Other title(s)
    African Americans in the US economy
    ISBN
    • 0742543773 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
    • 9780742543775 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
    • 0742543781 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
    • 9780742543782 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
    LCCN
    2004018357
    OCLC
    56128503
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