Black Economics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Black Economics write by Jawanza Kunjufu. This book was released on 2002. Black Economics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Jawanza Kunjufu examines how to keep black businesses and the more than $450 billion generated by them in the black community.
Collective Courage
Collective Courage - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Collective Courage write by Jessica Gordon Nembhard. This book was released on 2015-06-13. Collective Courage available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Our Black Year
Our Black Year - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Our Black Year write by Maggie Anderson. This book was released on 2012-02-14. Our Black Year available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Maggie and John Anderson were successful African American professionals raising two daughters in a tony suburb of Chicago. But they felt uneasy over their good fortune. Most African Americans live in economically starved neighborhoods. Black wealth is about one tenth of white wealth, and black businesses lag behind businesses of all other racial groups in every measure of success. One problem is that black consumers--unlike consumers of other ethnicities-- choose not to support black-ownedbusinesses. At the same time, most of the businesses in their communities are owned by outsiders. On January 1, 2009 the Andersons embarked on a year-long public pledge to "buy black." They thought that by taking a stand, the black community would be mobilized to exert its economic might. They thought that by exposing the issues, Americans of all races would see that economically empowering black neighborhoods benefits society as a whole. Instead, blacks refused to support their own, and others condemned their experiment. Drawing on economic research and social history as well as her personal story, Maggie Anderson shows why the black economy continues to suffer and issues a call to action to all of us to do our part to reverse this trend.
Entrepreneurship and Self-Help among Black Americans
Entrepreneurship and Self-Help among Black Americans - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Entrepreneurship and Self-Help among Black Americans write by John Sibley Butler. This book was released on 2012-02-01. Entrepreneurship and Self-Help among Black Americans available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since its publication in 1991, Entrepreneurship and Self-Help among Black Americans has become a classic work, influencing the study of entrepreneurship and, more importantly, revitalizing a research tradition that places new ventures at the very center of success for black Americans. This revised edition updates and enhances the work by bringing it into the twenty-first century. John Sibley Butler traces the development of black enterprises and other community organizations among black Americans from before the Civil War to the present. He compares these efforts to other strong traditions of self-help among groups such as Japanese Americans, Jewish Americans, Greek Americans, and exciting new research on the Amish and the Pakistani. He also explores how higher education is already a valued tradition among black self-help groups—such that today their offspring are more likely to be third and fourth generation college graduates. Butler effectively challenges the myth that nothing can be done to salvage America's underclass without a massive infusion of public dollars, and offers a fresh perspective on those community based organizations and individuals who act to solve local social and economic problems.
Black Business and Economics
Black Business and Economics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Black Business and Economics write by George H. Hill. This book was released on 1985. Black Business and Economics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
