Black Corporate Executives The Making And Breaking Of A Black Middle Class

Author : Sharon M. Collins
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1566394740

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Black Corporate Executives by Sharon M. Collins Pdf

Against the backdrop of increasing ambivalence in the federal government commitment to race-based employment policies, this book reveals how African-Americans first broke into professional and managerial jobs in corporations during the sixties and offers in-depth profiles of their subsequent career experiences.Two sets of interviews with the most successful Black executives in Chicago's major corporations are used to demonstrate how the creation of the Black business elite is connected to federal government pressures and black social unrest that characterized the civil Rights movement in the sixties.Black Corporate Executives presents, first hand, the dilemmas and contradictions that face this first wave of Black managers and reveals a subtle new employment discrimination. Corporations hired these executives in response to race-conscious political pressures and shifted them into "racialized" positions directing affirmative action programs or serving "special" markets of minority clients, customers, or urban affairs. Many executives became, as one man said, "the head Black in charge of Black people." These positions gave upper-middle-class lifestyles to those who held them but also siphoned these executives out of mainstream paths to corporate power typically leading through planning and production areas. As the political climate has become more conservative and the economy undergoes restructuring, these Black executives believe that the importance of recruiting Blacks has waned and that the jobs Blacks hold are vulnerable.Collins-Lowry's analysis challenges arguments that justify dismantling affirmative action. She argues that it is a myth to believe that Black occupational attainments are evidence that race no longer matters in the middle-class employment arena. On the contrary, Blacks' progress and well-being are tied to politics and employment practices that are sensitive to race. Author note: Sharon M. Collins teaches Sociology at the University of Illinois, in Chicago.

Author : Sharon M. Collins-Lowry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1566394740

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Black Corporate Executives : the Making and Breaking of a Black Middle Class by Sharon M. Collins-Lowry Pdf

Author : Bart Landry
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813593982

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The New Black Middle Class in the Twenty-First Century by Bart Landry Pdf

Although past research on the African American community has focused primarily on issues of discrimination, segregation, and other forms of deprivation, there has always been some recognition of class diversity within the black population. The New Black Middle Class in the Twenty-First Century is a significant contribution to the continuing study of black middle class life. Sociologist Bart Landry examines the changes that have occurred since the publication of his now-classic The New Black Middle Class in the late 1980s, and conducts a comprehensive examination of black middle class American life in the early decades of the twenty-first century. Landry investigates the educational and occupational attainment, income and wealth, methods of child-rearing, community-building priorities, and residential settlement patterns of this growing yet still-understudied segment of the U.S. population.

Author : Grace Khunou,Kris Marsh,Polite Chauke,Lesego Plank,Leo Igbanoi,Mabone Kgosiemang
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781838673550

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Does The Black Middle Class Exist And Are We Members? by Grace Khunou,Kris Marsh,Polite Chauke,Lesego Plank,Leo Igbanoi,Mabone Kgosiemang Pdf

Does the Black Middle Class Exist And Are We Members makes two contributions into the research of the black middle class. First, it explores how Black South Africans conceptualize middle classness. Second, it demonstrates how this conceptualization informs researchers’ social identity within the Black middle class.

Author : Robert S. Rycroft
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1087 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781610697583

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The American Middle Class [2 volumes] by Robert S. Rycroft Pdf

What is the "American Dream"? This book's author argues that contrary to what many believe, it is not achieving the wealth necessary to enter the top one percent but rather becoming members of the great middle class by dint of hard work and self-discipline. Americans of all classes consider themselves to be "middle class." There are Americans who by any objective standard should be considered poor who would insist they are middle class, just as other Americans who should be considered wealthy also insist they are middle class. Thinking of yourself and being thought of by others as middle class is the "American Dream" for tens of millions of people. But an enduring problem of the American middle class is the worry that the "Dream" is coming apart—that forces are lurking in the shadows waiting to steal their progress and throw them back into "poverty." This thought-provoking reference explores a disparate multitude of issues associated with being middle class in America. It addresses a range of questions and subtopics, including the meaning of the term "middle class"; how middle class status is expressed by both the majority and the various minorities that make up the American mosaic; what economic pressures are bearing down on the middle class; and how economists and others attempt to make sense of the economic issues of the day. Readers will also better understand how political institutions and public policies are shaping the way the middle class views the world; how labor, housing, education, and crime-related issues have influenced the development and growth of the middle class; the norms of the middle class versus those of other classes in society; and the role of culture and media in shaping how members of the middle class view themselves—and how they are viewed by others. This two-volume set provides a comprehensive look at the American middle class that supports student research in economics, social studies, cultural studies, and political history. The content supports teachers in their development of lesson plans and assignments that directly align with the Common Core State Standards and the recommendations of the National Curriculum Standards for Social Studies (NCSS) with respect to all ten NCSS themes.

Author : Eric S. Brown
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135125769

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The Black Professional Middle Class by Eric S. Brown Pdf

Through an in-depth case study of the black professional middle class in Oakland, this book provides an analysis of the experiences of black professionals in the workplace, community, and local politics. Brown shows how overlapping dynamics of class formation and racial formation have produced historically powerful processes of what he terms "racialized class formation," resulting in a distinct (and internally differentiated) entity, not merely a subset of a larger professional middle class.

Author : Gerald D. Jaynes
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 1113 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2005-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780761927648

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Encyclopedia of African American Society by Gerald D. Jaynes Pdf

Editor Jaynes (African American studies and economics, Yale U.) provides a thoughtful introduction to this two-volume work, which he explains is intended to be clearly written and accessible for high school students yet substantial enough to engage more sophisticated readers. He explains his choice of the term society for the title, which expresses

Author : Ira Berlin
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101189894

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The Making of African America by Ira Berlin Pdf

A leading historian offers a sweeping new account of the African American experience over four centuries Four great migrations defined the history of black people in America: the violent removal of Africans to the east coast of North America known as the Middle Passage; the relocation of one million slaves to the interior of the antebellum South; the movement of more than six million blacks to the industrial cities of the north and west a century later; and since the late 1960s, the arrival of black immigrants from Africa, the Caribbean, South America, and Europe. These epic migra­tions have made and remade African American life. Ira Berlin's magisterial new account of these passages evokes both the terrible price and the moving triumphs of a people forcibly and then willingly migrating to America. In effect, Berlin rewrites the master narrative of African America, challenging the traditional presentation of a linear path of progress. He finds instead a dynamic of change in which eras of deep rootedness alternate with eras of massive move­ment, tradition giving way to innovation. The culture of black America is constantly evolving, affected by (and affecting) places as far away from one another as Biloxi, Chicago, Kingston, and Lagos. Certain to gar­ner widespread media attention, The Making of African America is a bold new account of a long and crucial chapter of American history.

Author : Karyn Lacy
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2007-07-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520940697

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Blue-Chip Black by Karyn Lacy Pdf

As Karyn R. Lacy's innovative work in the suburbs of Washington, DC, reveals, there is a continuum of middle-classness among blacks, ranging from lower-middle class to middle-middle class to upper-middle class. Focusing on the latter two, Lacy explores an increasingly important social and demographic group: middle-class blacks who live in middle-class suburbs where poor blacks are not present. These "blue-chip black" suburbanites earn well over fifty thousand dollars annually and work in predominantly white professional environments. Lacy examines the complicated sense of identity that individuals in these groups craft to manage their interactions with lower-class blacks, middle-class whites, and other middle-class blacks as they seek to reap the benefits of their middle-class status.

Author : Adolph Reed Jr.
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429971594

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Without Justice For All by Adolph Reed Jr. Pdf

Without Justice for All: The New Liberalism and Our Retreat from Racial Equality questions, examines, and explains the way a new orthodoxy of American leaders has contributed to the social stratification and inequality which plagues America today. By looking at the history of our social policies since the New Deal, as well as the status of specific policy arenas, essayists show how political shifts over the past fifty years have moved us away from a more egalitarian politics. Throughout, the book responds critically to the now conventional argument that liberalism must be reconfigured in ways that retreat from immediate identification with the interests of labor, minorities, and the poor. From a look at federal housing policy and the failure of New Deal social programs to an examination of long established public assistance programs and Affirmative Action, Without Justice for All is a timely and important contribution to the dialogue on race in modern America.

Author : Juliet E. K. Walker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 756 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1999-11-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780313008641

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Encyclopedia of African American Business History by Juliet E. K. Walker Pdf

Black business activity has been sustained in America for almost four centuries. From the marketing and trading activities of African slaves in Colonial America to the rise of 20th-century black corporate America, African American participation in self-employed economic activities has been a persistent theme in the black experience. Yet, unlike other topics in African American history, the study of black business has been limited. General reference sources on the black experience—with their emphasis on social, cultural, and political life—provide little information on topics related to the history of black business. This invaluable encyclopedia is the only reference source providing information on the broad range of topics that illuminate black business history. Providing readily accessible information on the black business experience, the encyclopedia provides an overview of black business activities, and underscores the existence of a historic tradition of black American business participation. Entries range from biographies of black business people to overview surveys of business activities from the 1600s to the 1990s, including slave and free black business activities and the Black Wallstreet to coverage of black women's business activities, and discussions of such African American specific industries as catering, funeral enterprises, insurance, and hair care and cosmetic products. Also, there are entries on blacks in the automotive parts industry, black investment banks, black companies listed on the stock market, blacks and corporate America, civil rights and black business, and black athletes and business activities.

Author : Marcus A. Hunter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429018053

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The New Black Sociologists by Marcus A. Hunter Pdf

The New Black Sociologists follows in the footsteps of 1974’s pioneering text Black Sociologists: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, by tracing the organization of its forbearer in key thematic ways. This new collection of essays revisit the legacies of significant Black scholars including James E. Blackwell, William Julius Wilson, Joyce Ladner, and Mary Pattillo, but also extends coverage to include overlooked figures like Audre Lorde, Ida B. Wells, James Baldwin and August Wilson - whose lives and work have inspired new generations of Black sociologists on contemporary issues of racial segregation, feminism, religiosity, class, inequality and urban studies.

Author : Kenneth Lipartito,David B. Sicilia
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2004-05-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780191530807

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Constructing Corporate America by Kenneth Lipartito,David B. Sicilia Pdf

Why and how has the business corporation come to exert such a powerful influence on American society? The essays here take up this question, offering a fresh perspective on the ways in which the business corporation has assumed an enduring place in the modern capitalist economy, and how it has affected American society, culture and politics over the past two centuries. The authors challenge standard assumptions about the business corporation's emergence and performance in the United States over the past two centuries. Reviewing in depth the different theoretical and historiographical traditions that have treated the corporation, the volume seeks a new departure that can more fully explain this crucial institution of capitalism. Rejecting assertions that the corporation is dead, the essays show that in fact it has survived and even thrived down to the present in part because of the ways in which it has related to its social, political and cultural environmental. In doing so, the book breaks with older explanations ground in technology and economics, and treats the corporation for the first time as a fully social institution. Drawing on a variety of social theories and approaches, the essays help to point the way toward future studies of this powerful and enduring institution, offering a new periodization and a new set of question for scholars to explore. The range of essays engages the legal and political position of the corporation, the ways in which the corporation has been shaped by and shaped American culture, the controversies over corporate regulation and corporate power, and the efforts of minority and disadvantaged groups to gain access to the resources and opportunities that corporations control.

Author : Richard L. Zweigenhaft,G. William Domhoff
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Education
ISBN : 0742516210

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Blacks in the White Elite by Richard L. Zweigenhaft,G. William Domhoff Pdf

Shows why America is at a crucial juncture in relations between blacks and whites, when advances made since the Civil Rights Movement could either continue or retrench, depending on the decisions made by our governments, communities, and schools.

Author : Julian Go
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781780528670

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Political Power and Social Theory by Julian Go Pdf

As economic stagnation freezes the globe; capitalism is increasingly questioned; war, revolution and political instability unsettles the Middle East; and President Obama's campaign for the Presidency looms, Volume 23 of Political Power and Social Theory reflects on these and related issues and whether the concept of "capitalism" should be problemat