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Author:   Lewis A. Randolph ,  Robert E. Weems
Publisher:   New York University Press
Imprint:   New York University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.590kg
ISBN:  

9780814775172

ISBN 10:   0814775179
Pages:   352
Publication Date:   01 February 2009
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

List of TablesAcknowledgments Introduction: The Initiatives Leading to Black Capitalism 1 The Origins of the Commerce Department's Division of Negro Affairs, 1925-1940 2 Emmer Lancaster and the Ascendancy and Fall of the Commerce Department's Division of Negro Affairs, 1940-1960 3 More Than Civil Rights: The Kennedy and Johnson Administrations and African American Enterprise 4 The Democratic Party and Black Capitalism during the Presidential Election of 1968 5 Nixon and the Militants : The GOP and Black Capitalism during the Presidential Election of 1968 6 The National Response to Richard M. Nixon's Black Capitalism Initiative 7 The Ford Administration and Black Capitalism 8 The Carter Administration and African American Enterprise Epilogue: Whatever Happened to Black Capitalism? Appendix NotesBibliography IndexAbout the Author

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a[An] extraordinarily detailed and well-documented historical inquiry. . . . Robert Weems' engaging, well-written book makes a significant and invaluable contribution in several areas of study.a <br>--Juliet E.K. Walker, author of The History of Black Business in America: Capitalism, Race, Entrepreneurship

Author Information

Lewis A. Randolph is professor of Political Science at Ohio University and co-editor, with Gayle T. Tate, of Dimensions of Black Conservatives in the United States: Made in America. Robert E. Weems, Jr., is Professor of History at the University of Missouri-Columbia and author of Desegregating the Dollar: African American Consumerism in the Twentieth Century (NYU Press).

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