| Description |
xiv, 401 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography |
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. |
| Subject |
African Americans -- Economic conditions.
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African Americans -- Economic conditions. |
| Added Author |
Conrad, Cecilia, 1955-
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| Added Title |
African Americans in the US economy |
| ISBN |
0742543781 paperback alkaline paper |
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0742543773 cloth alkaline paper |
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