The business of Black power : community development, capitalism, and corporate responsibility in postwar America /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Hill, Laura Warren, Rabig, Julia
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Rochester, N.Y. : University of Rochester Press, [2012]
Subjects:	Black power > Economic aspects > United States. African American business enterprises > History > 20th century. African Americans > Economic conditions > 20th century.

Table of Contents:

Toward a history of the business of Black power / Laura Warren Hill and Julia Rabig
Fighting for the soul of Black capitalism : struggles for Black economic development in postrebellion Rochester / Laura Warren Hill
A McDonald's that reflects the soul of a people : Hough Area Development Corporation and community development in Cleveland / Nishani Frazier
Black (buying) power : the story of Essence magazine / Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Creating a multicultural soul : Avon, corporate social responsibility, and race in the 1970s / Lindsey Feitz
From landless to landlords : Black power, Black capitalism, and the co-optation of Detroit's tenants' rights movement, 1964-69 / David Goldberg
"Gilding the ghetto" and debates over Chicago's Gautreaux program / Andrea Gill
"What we need is brick and mortar" : race, gender, and early leadership of the Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation / Brian Purnell
"A fight and a question" : community development corporations, machine politics, and
Corporate philanthropy in the long urban crisis / Julia Rabig
Conclusion : whose Black power? : the business of Black power and Black power's business / Michael O. West
Epilogue : whatever happened to the business of Black power? / Robert E. Weems Jr.