African American & Black, Business 

From dust jacket: "How are the economic foundations of Black power to be laid? What, if anything, can we learn from the long, sad history of Black economic (non) development in this country? Why, historically, has Black business enterprise played such an insignificant role in the U.S. economy? Can - indeed should - Black capitalism be made to work? But, if not Black capitalism, what are the alternatives? Here is the first truly comprehensive sourcebook on Black economic development - its history, its current status, and its future prospects - ever published. Its twenty-six readings, many of them hitherto unavailable, present every conceivable approach to the problem of Black economic development, from complete separatism to full integration into the white economy, from attempts to build a viable Black private enterprise system to various types of communal and state socialism, and from strategies of cooperation to strategies of revolution. Leading scholars, activists, and businessmen, most of them Black, describe and evaluate our experience to date with alternative programs and assess future strategies in the light of this experience. They thus provide us with a unique resource which all those - businessmen, government officials, students, and, most important, future leaders of the Black community - concerned with the struggle of Blacks for economic growth and self-determination will be referring to for years to come."