The Business Of Black Power

Author : Laura Warren Hill,Julia Rabig
Publisher : University Rochester Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781580464031

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The Business of Black Power by Laura Warren Hill,Julia Rabig Pdf

Explores business development in the Black power era and the centrality of economic goals to the larger black freedom movement. The Business of Black Power emphasizes the centrality of economic goals to the larger black freedom movement and explores the myriad forms of business development in the Black power era. This volume charts a new course forBlack power studies and business history, exploring both the business ventures that Black power fostered and the impact of Black power on the nation's business world. Black activists pressed business leaders, corporations, and various levels of government into supporting a range of economic development ventures, from Black entrepreneurship, to grassroots experiments in economic self-determination, to indigenous attempts to rebuild inner-city markets in thewake of disinvestment. They pioneered new economic and development strategies, often in concert with corporate executives and public officials. Yet these same actors also engaged in fierce debates over the role of business in strengthening the movement, and some African Americans outright rejected capitalism or collaboration with business. The ten scholars in this collection bring fresh analysis to this complex intersection of African American and business history to reveal how Black power advocates, or those purporting a Black power agenda, engaged business to advance their economic, political, and social goals. They show the business of Black power taking place in thestreets, boardrooms, journals and periodicals, corporations, courts, and housing projects of America. In short, few were left untouched by the influence of this movement. Laura Warren Hill is assistant professor of history at Bloomfield College. Julia Rabig is a lecturer at Dartmouth College.

Author : N. Slate
Publisher : Springer
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137295064

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Black Power beyond Borders by N. Slate Pdf

This groundbreaking volume examines the transnational dimensions of Black Power - how Black Power thinkers and activists drew on foreign movements and vice versa how individuals and groups in other parts of the world interpreted 'Black Power,' from African liberation movements to anti-caste agitation in India to indigenous protests in New Zealand.

Author : Joyce M. Bell
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780231538015

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The Black Power Movement and American Social Work by Joyce M. Bell Pdf

The Black Power movement has often been portrayed in history and popular culture as the quintessential "bad boy" of modern black movement-making in America. Yet this impression misses the full extent of Black Power's contributions to U.S. society, especially in regard to black professionals in social work. Relying on extensive archival research and oral history interviews, Joyce M. Bell follows two groups of black social workers in the 1960s and 1970s as they mobilized Black Power ideas, strategies, and tactics to change their national professional associations. Comparing black dissenters within the National Federation of Settlements (NFS), who fought for concessions from within their organization, and those within the National Conference on Social Welfare (NCSW), who ultimately adopted a separatist strategy, she shows how the Black Power influence was central to the creation and rise of black professional associations. She also provides a nuanced approach to studying race-based movements and offers a framework for understanding the role of social movements in shaping the non-state organizations of civil society.

Author : Ashley D. Farmer
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781469634388

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Remaking Black Power by Ashley D. Farmer Pdf

In this comprehensive history, Ashley D. Farmer examines black women's political, social, and cultural engagement with Black Power ideals and organizations. Complicating the assumption that sexism relegated black women to the margins of the movement, Farmer demonstrates how female activists fought for more inclusive understandings of Black Power and social justice by developing new ideas about black womanhood. This compelling book shows how the new tropes of womanhood that they created--the "Militant Black Domestic," the "Revolutionary Black Woman," and the "Third World Woman," for instance--spurred debate among activists over the importance of women and gender to Black Power organizing, causing many of the era's organizations and leaders to critique patriarchy and support gender equality. Making use of a vast and untapped array of black women's artwork, political cartoons, manifestos, and political essays that they produced as members of groups such as the Black Panther Party and the Congress of African People, Farmer reveals how black women activists reimagined black womanhood, challenged sexism, and redefined the meaning of race, gender, and identity in American life.

Author : David Goldberg,Trevor Griffey
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780801461958

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Black Power at Work by David Goldberg,Trevor Griffey Pdf

Black Power at Work chronicles the history of direct action campaigns to open up the construction industry to black workers in the 1960s and 1970s. The book's case studies of local movements in Brooklyn, Newark, the Bay Area, Detroit, Chicago, and Seattle show how struggles against racism in the construction industry shaped the emergence of Black Power politics outside the U.S. South. In the process, "community control" of the construction industry—especially government War on Poverty and post-rebellion urban reconstruction projects— became central to community organizing for black economic self-determination and political autonomy. The history of Black Power's community organizing tradition shines a light on more recent debates about job training and placement for unemployed, underemployed, and underrepresented workers. Politicians responded to Black Power protests at federal construction projects by creating modern affirmative action and minority set-aside programs in the late 1960s and early 1970s, but these programs relied on "voluntary" compliance by contractors and unions, government enforcement was inadequate, and they were not connected to jobs programs. Forty years later, the struggle to have construction jobs serve as a pathway out of poverty for inner city residents remains an unfinished part of the struggle for racial justice and labor union reform in the United States.

Author : Charles V. Hamilton,Kwame Ture
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780307795274

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Black Power by Charles V. Hamilton,Kwame Ture Pdf

An eloquent document of the civil rights movement that remains a work of profound social relevance 50 years after it was first published. A revolutionary work since its publication, Black Power exposed the depths of systemic racism in this country and provided a radical political framework for reform: true and lasting social change would only be accomplished through unity among African-Americans and their independence from the preexisting order.

Author : Kerry Hinton
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781538380192

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The Black Power Movement and Civil Unrest by Kerry Hinton Pdf

By the late 1960s, the slow pace of progress brought about by the civil rights movement caused growing dissatisfaction for some. The assassinations of civil rights leaders during this time convinced many activists that white supremacy could not be countered with silence. The Black Power movement arose to address these concerns by holding a philosophy that black Americans could obtain basic human needs through self-reliance and self-determination. Readers will learn about the movement's ideals, the methods used to achieve them, and the people who led the campaign for improved social conditions for all African Americans.

Author : Tom Adam Davies
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520292116

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Mainstreaming Black Power by Tom Adam Davies Pdf

"The traditional narrative of the civil rights movement has been that the more moderate demands of the mainstream movement, including Martin Luther King Jr., worked, but that the more "radical" demands of the Black Power movement derailed further success. Mainstreaming Black Power upends the traditional narrative by showing how Black Power Activists in New York, Atlanta, and Los Angeles during the 1960s through the 1970s navigated the nexus of public policies, black community organizations, elected officials, and liberal foundations. Tom Adam Davies unites local and national perspectives and reveals how the efforts of mainstream white politicians, institutions, and organizations engaged with Black Power ideology, and how they ultimately limited both the pace and extent of change."--Provided by publisher.

Author : Robert Alan LeVine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Black power
ISBN : UCBK:C025989468

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Black Power, White Style by Robert Alan LeVine Pdf

Author : Tom Adam Davies
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520965645

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Mainstreaming Black Power by Tom Adam Davies Pdf

Mainstreaming Black Power upends the narrative that the Black Power movement allowed for a catharsis of black rage but achieved little institutional transformation or black uplift. Retelling the story of the 1960s and 1970s across the United States—and focusing on New York, Atlanta, and Los Angeles—this book reveals how the War on Poverty cultivated black self-determination politics and demonstrates that federal, state, and local policies during this period bolstered economic, social, and educational institutions for black control. Mainstreaming Black Power shows more convincingly than ever before that white power structures did engage with Black Power in specific ways that tended ultimately to reinforce rather than challenge existing racial, class, and gender hierarchies. This book emphasizes that Black Power’s reach and legacies can be understood only in the context of an ideologically diverse black community.

Author : Jason L. Riley
Publisher : Templeton Foundation Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781599475196

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False Black Power? by Jason L. Riley Pdf

Black civil rights leaders have long supported ethnic identity politics and prioritized the integration of political institutions, and seldom has that strategy been questioned. In False Black Power?, Jason L. Riley takes an honest, factual look at why increased black political power has not paid off in the ways that civil rights leadership has promised. Recent decades have witnessed a proliferation of black elected officials, culminating in the historic presidency of Barack Obama. However, racial gaps in employment, income, homeownership, academic achievement, and other measures not only continue but in some cases have even widened. While other racial and ethnic groups in America have made economic advancement a priority, the focus on political capital for blacks has been a disadvantage, blocking them from the fiscal capital that helped power upward mobility among other groups. Riley explains why the political strategy of civil rights leaders has left so many blacks behind. The key to black economic advancement today is overcoming cultural handicaps, not attaining more political power. The book closes with thoughtful responses from key thought leaders Glenn Loury and John McWhorter.

Author : Bettye Collier-Thomas,V.P. Franklin,Vincent P. Franklin
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2001-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780814716021

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Sisters in the Struggle by Bettye Collier-Thomas,V.P. Franklin,Vincent P. Franklin Pdf

Tells the stories and documents the contributions of African American women involved in the struggle for racial and gender equality through the civil rights and black power movements in the United States.

Author : Cora Daniels
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2004-04-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780471663553

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Black Power Inc. by Cora Daniels Pdf

Black Power Inc. explores the emergence of a new black elite that sees business and economics as the true base of American power, rather than politics. Instead of mobilizing voters, they are storming boardrooms across the country and establishing themselves in positions of real influence. Now, Fortune magazine writer Cora Daniels, one of the primary chroniclers of this new shift in attitudes, reveals both the professionals who drive it and their motivations for doing so.

Author : Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421429762

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Black Power by Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar Pdf

Ultimately, Black Power reveals a black freedom movement in which the ideals of desegregation through nonviolence and black nationalism marched side by side.

Author : Amos N. Wilson
Publisher : Afrikan World Infosystems
Page : 920 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : African Americans
ISBN : UOM:39015043763476

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Blueprint for Black Power by Amos N. Wilson Pdf

Afrikan life into the coming millennia is imperiled by White and Asian power. True power must nest in the ownership of the real estate wherever Afrikan people dwell. Economic destiny determines biologial destiny. 'Blueprint for Black Power' details a master plan for the power revolution necessary for Black survival in the 21st century. White treatment of Afrikan Americans, despite a myriad of theories explaining White behavior, ultimately rests on the fact that they can. They possess the power to do so. Such a power differential must be neutralized if Blacks are to prosper in the 21st century ... Aptly titled, 'Blueprint for Black Power' stops not at critique but prescribes radical, practical theories, frameworks and approaches for true power. It gives a biting look into Black potentiality. (Back cover).