Preface; Black Political Economy: An Introduction; PART I Slavery and the Early Formation of Black Labor; PART II Organized Labor and African Americans; PART III Theories of Racial Discrimination, Inequality, and Economic Progress; PART IV Current Economic Status of African Americans: Hard Evidence of Economic Discrimination and Inequality; PART V Globalization and Its Impact on the Economic Well-Being of African Americans and Latinos; PART VI Black Capitalism: Entrepreneurs and Consumers.
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Over the last several decades, academic discourse on racial inequality has focused primarily on political and social issues with significantly less attention on the complex interplay between race and economics. African Americans in the U.S. Economyrepresents a contribution to recent scholarship that seeks to lessen this imbalance. This book builds upon, and significantly extends, the principles, terminology, and methods of standard economics and black political economy. Influenced by path-breaking studies presented in several scholarly economic journals, this volume is designed to provide a.
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