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Building the Black Metropolis on Hardback by Robert E. Weems Jr.
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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.

Author Biography:

Robert E. Weems Jr. is the Willard W. Garvey Distinguished Professor of Business History at Wichita State University. He is the author of Business in Black and White: American Presidents and Black Entrepreneurs in the Twentieth Century. Jason P. Chambers is an associate professor of advertising at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and author of Madison Avenue and the Color Line: African Americans in the Advertising Industry.
Release date NZ
August 10th, 2017
Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
Contributors
  • Contributions by Christopher Robert Reed
  • Contributions by Clovis E. Semmes
  • Contributions by Jason Chambers
  • Contributions by Juliet E. K. Walker
  • Contributions by Marcia Chatelain
  • Contributions by Myiti Sengstacke Rice
  • Contributions by Robert Howard
  • Contributions by Will Cooley
  • Edited by Jason Chambers
Illustrations
5 tables
Pages
276
ISBN-13
9780252041426
Product ID
26800256

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