Wake Up and Smell the Dollars! Whose Inner-City Is This Anyway!: One Woman's Struggle Against Sexism, Classism, Racism, Gentrification, and the Empowerment Zone [Paperback]

Dorothy Pitman Hughes (Author), Yvonne Rose (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1, 2000

You will find information to help you take your small business public. You will find examples of business plans and proposals that will help you in your endeavor to economically empower yourselves and your communities. You will gain economic empowerment.

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

Hughes, owner of a New York City office supply store, has written an informative guide for small black business entrepreneurs that is also a memoir, a call to action, and a how-to manual. She focuses on New York's predominantly black community of Harlem, relating how black businesses there have been victimized by gentrification and how white enterprises are flourishing now because of the emergence of the "empowerment zone," a government program that brings dollars into economically depressed areas. Hughes contends that the zone's philosophy is to bring in large corporations to create jobs, while black-owned businesses aim to "support ownership in the community to create wealth, security and a strong social culture." She is clearly on a mission, which is admirable: she wants to empower all inner-city residents economically; show her fellow black businesspeople how to raise money, sell shares, and buy stock; and take advantage of all investment opportunities. While this is an enlightening work, the author tends to be too impressed with her own accomplishments. Recommended nonetheless for small-business collections.DAnn Burns, "Library Journal"
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Review

"I'm so grateful to know Dorothy! Nothing is too small or big for her to take on. She helps me to know that the way of behaving normally is behaving as if everything matters." -- Gloria Steinem, Activist, Feminist, Founder, Ms. Magazine

"I've always been proud of Dorothy Pitman Hughes. She is creative...wonderful...[and] willing to fight for what is right... -- The Honorable Percy L. Sutton, Former Borough President of Manhattan / Chairman and Founder, Inner City Broadcasting

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Product Details

• Paperback: 242 pages
• Publisher: Amber Communications Group, Inc. (April 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0965506479
• ISBN-13: 978-0965506472
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,029,351 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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