This volume isolates the cause of continuing disparities not only between blacks and whites, but amongst blacks as well. Key factors discussed include the current state of the economy the influence of public policies, the persistence of urban poverty, economic opportunities, changes in family and social structure and equal opportunities. The city of Atlanta is used as a case study focusing on the emergence of the new black entrepreneur, with data on black businesses drawn from records of almost 1000 black owned firms.
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In Affirmative Action and Black Entrepreneurship, Boston masterfully illustrates the overwhelming need to preserve affirmative action as a viable and fundamental strategy to increase the development and success of black entrepreneurs.
–Kweisi Mfume, President and CEO of the NAACP
How rare is it that we get a knowledgeable literary work to read and utilize, one focusing on a volatile and sensitive policy, that proposes a rational and realistic plan for black business and employment growth in the immediate future? Seldom! Thomas Boston's Affirmative Action and Black Entrepreneurship is one of those rare opportunities. Please...take advantage of it!.
–Earl G. Graves, Publisher, Black Enterprise Magazine
'Capitalism or Chaos' should be the title of Thomas Boston's study of Atlanta's affirmative action efforts. It works for Blacks and Whites alike. The alternative costs of poverty based on race and gender is too great for any democracy to bear. Our freedom is bound to the assurance of Free Enterprise for all: Affirmative Action.
–Andrew Young
–Kweisi Mfume, President and CEO of the NAACP
How rare is it that we get a knowledgeable literary work to read and utilize, one focusing on a volatile and sensitive policy, that proposes a rational and realistic plan for black business and employment growth in the immediate future? Seldom! Thomas Boston's Affirmative Action and Black Entrepreneurship is one of those rare opportunities. Please...take advantage of it!.
–Earl G. Graves, Publisher, Black Enterprise Magazine
'Capitalism or Chaos' should be the title of Thomas Boston's study of Atlanta's affirmative action efforts. It works for Blacks and Whites alike. The alternative costs of poverty based on race and gender is too great for any democracy to bear. Our freedom is bound to the assurance of Free Enterprise for all: Affirmative Action.
–Andrew Young
About the Author
Thomas D. Boston is Professor of Economics at Georgia Institute of Technology. He is editor of A Different Vision: Vol 1: African American Economic Thought and Vol. 2: Race and Public Policy. He is editor of the Review of Black Political Economy and has lectured and published widely on issues of race and economics.
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A "book report" not a book,
This review is from: Affirmative Action and Black Entrepreneurship (A Century Foundation Book) (Hardcover)
This book is full of graphs, charts, sidebars and little commentary on the subject matter. It reads more like a report than as a book. SAVE YOUR MONEY!
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During the 1950s, the U.S. Supreme Court rendered several important decisions that struck at the foundation of Jim Crow segregation. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
black business sector, minority business programs, disparity studies, metro locations, black business owners, disparity study, strict scrutiny standard, black entrepreneurship, black contractors, employment capacity, black workforce, minority firms, vocational degree, procurement opportunities, prior discrimination, opportunity matters Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Supreme Court, Fulton County, Census Bureau, Adarand Decision, Public Works Employment Act, Department of Commerce, Fourteenth Amendment, Civil War, Jim Crow, Bureau of the Census, Kansas City, Maynard Jackson, Survey of Minority-owned Business Enterprises, Sweet Auburn New!
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During the 1950s, the U.S. Supreme Court rendered several important decisions that struck at the foundation of Jim Crow segregation. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
black business sector, minority business programs, disparity studies, metro locations, black business owners, disparity study, strict scrutiny standard, black entrepreneurship, black contractors, employment capacity, black workforce, minority firms, vocational degree, procurement opportunities, prior discrimination, opportunity matters Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Supreme Court, Fulton County, Census Bureau, Adarand Decision, Public Works Employment Act, Department of Commerce, Fourteenth Amendment, Civil War, Jim Crow, Bureau of the Census, Kansas City, Maynard Jackson, Survey of Minority-owned Business Enterprises, Sweet Auburn New!
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- The Negro American Artisan (The Atlantic University Publications, No 17) by W. E. B. Du Bois in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Black Bourgeoisie: The Book That Brought the Shock of Self-Revelation to Middle-Class Blacks in America by E. Franklin Frazier in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Trials and Triumphs: Story of African Canadians by Lawrence Hill in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- When Race Counts: The Morality of Racial Preference in Britain and America by John Edwards in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Final report in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Entrepreneurship and Self-Help Among Black Americans: A Reconsideration of Race and Economics (S U N Y Series in Ethnicity and Race in American Life) by John Sibley Butler on page 296, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Emergence of Entrepreneurship Policy: Governance, Start-Ups, and Growth in the U.S. Knowledge Economy by David M. Hart in Back Matter
- Yet a Stranger: Why Black Americans Still Don't Feel at Home by Deborah Mathis in Back Matter
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