| Building the Black Metropolis: African American Entrepreneurship in Chicago Contributor(s): Weems Jr, Robert E. (Author), Chambers, Jason (Editor), Chambers, Jason (Contribution by) |
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ISBN: 0252041429 ISBN-13: 9780252041426 Publisher: University of Illinois Press OUR PRICE: $108.90 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | African American - Business & Economics | Entrepreneurship - History | United States - State & Local - Midwest(ia,il,in,ks,mi,mn,mo,nd,ne,oh,sd,wi |
| Dewey: 305.896 |
| LCCN: 2017005983 |
| Series: New Black Studies |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.3" W x 9.4" (1.15 lbs) 276 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Topical - Black History - Locality - Chicago, Illinois - Geographic Orientation - Illinois |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: From Jean Baptiste Point DuSable to Oprah Winfrey, black entrepreneurship has helped define Chicago. Robert E. Weems Jr. and Jason P. Chambers curate a collection of essays that place the city as the center of the black business world in the United States. Ranging from titans like Anthony Overton and Jesse Binga to McDonald's operators to black organized crime, the scholars shed light on the long-overlooked history of African American work and entrepreneurship since the Great Migration. Together they examine how factors like the influx of southern migrants and the city's unique segregation patterns made Chicago a prolific incubator of productive business development--and made building a black metropolis as much a necessity as an opportunity. Contributors: Jason P. Chambers, Marcia Chatelain, Will Cooley, Robert Howard, Christopher Robert Reed, Myiti Sengstacke Rice, Clovis E. Semmes, Juliet E. K. Walker, and Robert E. Weems Jr. |