African Americans In The U.S. Economy Book

	Black political economy : an introduction	1
1	The international slave trade	9
2	Africa, Europe, and the origins of uneven development : the role of slavery	14
3	The critical role of African Americans in the development of the pre-Civil War U.S. economy	20
4	The black sharecropping system and its decline	32
5	The rise of the Black industrial working class, 1915-1918	38
6	An uncertain tradition : Blacks and unions, 1865-1925	47
7	The brotherhood of sleeping car porters	58
8	Civil rights and organized labor : the case of the United Steelworkers of America, 1948-1970	66
9	Racial economic inequality and discrimination : conservative and liberal paradigms revisited	83
10	Marxist theory of racism and racial inequality	94
11	The crowding hypothesis	101
12	"Keeping people in their place" : the economics of racial violence	110
13	The black political economy paradigm and the dynamics of racial economic inequality	118
14	Race and gender differences in the U.S. labor market : the impact of educational attainment	133
15	Persistent racial discrimination in the labor market	141
16	Racial inequality and African Americans' disadvantage in the credit and capital markets	151
17	Changes in the labor market status of Black women, 1960-2000	157
18	Single-mother families in the Black community : economic context and policies	163
19	The racial wealth gap	175
20	Globalization, the transformation of capital, and the erosion of Black and Latino living standards	185
21	Globalization and African Americans : a focus on public employment	193
22	Immigration and African Americans	199
23	African American intragroup inequality and corporate globalization	208
24	Globalization, racism, and the expansion of the American penal system	223
25	History of Black capitalism	231
26	Black-owned businesses : trends and prospects	237
27	Black-owned banks : past and present	246
28	"Bling-bling" and other recent trends in African American consumerism	252
29	A critical examination of the political economy of the hip-hop industry	258
30	Black capitalism : self-help or self-delusion?	271
31	Black power : the struggle for parental choice in education	281
32	School choice : a desperate gamble	288
33	The Black youth employment problem revisited	294
34	Employment and training solutions for the economically disadvantaged	305
35	Racism in the U.S. welfare policy : a human rights issue	309
36	Past due : the African American quest for reparations	319
37	The theory of restitution	327
38	The economics of reparations	334
39	Inner-city economic development and revitalization : a community-building approach	341
40	Combating gentrification through equitable development	357
41	The Black church and community economic development	363
42	Black patronage of Black-owned businesses and Black employment	373
43	African American athletes and urban revitalization : African American athletes as a funding source for inner-city investments	378