Robert E. Weems Jr. is the Willard W. Garvey Distinguished Professor of Business History at Wichita State University. He is the author of Business in Black and White: American Presidents and Black Entrepreneurs in the Twentieth Century. Jason P. Chambers is an associate professor of advertising at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and author of Madison Avenue and the Color Line: African Americans in the Advertising Industry.
“A major contribution on the Black Metropolis as a black business
movement, a black public sphere, and visions of freedom in the
city.”--Quincy T. Mills, author of Cutting Along the Color Line:
Black Barbers and Barber Shops in America
"Weems (Wichita State) and Chambers (Univ. of Illinois) provide a
detailed look into the forces and people who shaped Chicago's black
business and metropolis since the 1800s. . . .
Recommended."--Choice
"Building the Black Metropolis is an insightful and informative
book that will appeal to a wide general audience, and hopefully all
who read it will be inspired to continue to support African
American entrepreneurs and their ongoing business ventures
throughout the country." --Journal of the Illinois State Historical
Society
"Building the Black Metropolis is a solid collection. Taken as a
whole, these essays reveal how racial segregation has created
inequality, generation after generation--and the limits of racial
solidarity to overcome it." --Journal of American History
"A work that examines history in its own skin. At a time when
scholarship is praising immigrant entrepreneurship in America, it
is great to see a book that says, 'Black America has been there,
done that, and got the T-Shirt.' A work that should bind the past
with the future because it recreates a model of business success
that holds the key to the future. An American Story well
done."--John Sibley Butler, author of Entrepreneurship and
Self-Help Among Black Americans: A Reconsideration of Race and
Economics
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