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- 9781512827422
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN-10
1512827428
ISBN-13
9781512827422
eBay Product ID (ePID)
15068279626
Product Key Features
Book Title
Freedom Enterprise : Black Entrepreneurship and Racial Capitalism in Detroit
Number of Pages
360 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2025
Topic
United States / 20th Century, Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), African American, Free Enterprise
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Business & Economics, History
Book Series
American Business, Politics, and Society Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.3 in
Item Weight
23.4 Oz
Item Length
9.4 in
Item Width
6.5 in
Additional Product Features
LCCN
2025-002777
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
Can free enterprise make you free? In Freedom Enterprise, Kendra D. Boyd explores how Detroit's Black entrepreneurs tried to use their businesses to carve paths to freedom, seeking economic security and justice for themselves and their communities. Boyd also reveals the tools of economic violence the government wielded to crush their accomplishments. A timely and compelling work, Freedom Enterprise 's powerful indictment of racial capitalism resonates deeply with today's discussions on reparations, wealth disparities, and the enduring quest for true justice and equality., Freedom's Enterprise is an impressive accomplishment that makes a major contribution to the histories of Black entrepreneurship and the Great Migration. Kendra D. Boyd offers detailed research and incisive analysis of the history of African Americans who migrated to Detroit, not to work in Henry Ford's auto factories, but to establish their own businesses. Her ability to use the compelling stories of 'migrant entrepreneurs' in the 'Motor City' to illuminate the cost of racial capitalism is a major achievement., Freedom Enterprise is a compelling examination of Detroit's Black 'migrant entrepreneurs' who battled the forces of racial oppression and economic exploitation to define financial autonomy on their own terms. Their strategies, successes, and failures remain salient as we confront the violence of racial capitalism today. With methodological dexterity and rigor, Kendra D. Boyd offers an innovative way to contextualize the Black Midwest and its centrality to US economic history--beyond the shop floor. This is the kind of book upon which new fields are built. A stellar accomplishment.
Dewey Decimal
338.0408996073077434
Synopsis
Traces the rise and fall of the historic Black business community in Detroit The Great Migration saw more than six million African Americans leave the US South between 1910 and 1970. Though the experiences of migrant laborers are well-known, countless African Americans also left the South to pursue entrepreneurial opportunities and viewed business as key to Black liberation. Detroit's status as a mecca for Black entrepreneurship illuminates this overlooked aspect of the Great Migration story. In Freedom Enterprise, Kendra D. Boyd uses "migrant entrepreneurship" as a lens through which to understand the entwined histories of Black-owned business, racial capitalism, and urban space. Freedom Enterprise follows Black Southerners' journeys to Detroit during the initial wave of migration in the 1910s and 1920s, through their efforts to build a prosperous Black business community in the 1930s and 1940s, to the destruction of that community through urban renewal projects and freeway construction in the 1950s and 1960s. Combining business and social history methods to analyze an eclectic archive, Boyd chronicles migrant entrepreneurs' experiences, highlighting tales of racial and economic violence, Black women's business organizing, illegal business, communist entrepreneurs, and cooperative economics. Boyd uses the framework of racial capitalism to examine migrant entrepreneurs' experiences in twentieth-century America. In the Jim Crow South, African Americans worried about white mobs taking away their property, wealth, and lives. Though they sought refuge in Detroit, migrant entrepreneurs subsequently faced the loss of their livelihoods and the businesses they had spent decades building to the bulldozers of state-sponsored urban redevelopment initiatives. Southern migrants' "freedom enterprise"--their undertaking of attaining freedom through business--was curtailed by the reality of operating within the confines of US racial capitalism. In tracing Black entrepreneurs across the Great Migration, Freedom Enterprise provides important insights into African Americans' activism for racial and economic justice and continued racialized wealth disparities.
LC Classification Number
F574.D49B533 2025
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- c***m (426)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseAAA+++; Excellent Service; Great Pricing; Fast Delivery-Faster Than Expected to Hawaii using free shipping USPS Ground Mail, Received 06/18; Paperback book in Great Condition as Described ; TLC Packaging; Excellent Seller Communication, Sends updates . Highly Recommended!, Thank you very much!
- n***m (110)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseGood price for the book. Shipping was slow. Messaged the seller a week after I ordered it to see when they were going to ship it. They responded immediately and said it would be shipped out soon. Got it about a week later. Book did arrive in the date range that they provided though  Minimal packaging. Book is Shrink wrapped and only wrapped in thin plastic. No bubble wrap. Book is in good shape though. 
- c***t (923)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseThe book I bought was reasonably priced and when it arrived it was in the 'Like New' condition specified in the listing. However, when I saw that the seller had not shipped the book after more than 15 days had passed since my order I felt I must write to say that I had actually placed an order with the seller and inquire when it planned to send the book. The brusque reply was that a tracking number was available, but no number HAD been created until I pointed out that I had placed the order.Catland by Hughes, Kathryn, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US (#356798982438)
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- c***m (426)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseAAA+++; Excellent Service; Great Pricing; Fast Delivery-Faster Than Expected to Hawaii using free shipping USPS Ground Mail, Received 06/18; Paperback book in Great Condition as Described ; TLC Packaging; Excellent Seller Communication, Sends updates . Highly Recommended!, Thank you very much!
- n***m (110)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseGood price for the book. Shipping was slow. Messaged the seller a week after I ordered it to see when they were going to ship it. They responded immediately and said it would be shipped out soon. Got it about a week later. Book did arrive in the date range that they provided though  Minimal packaging. Book is Shrink wrapped and only wrapped in thin plastic. No bubble wrap. Book is in good shape though. 
- c***t (923)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseThe book I bought was reasonably priced and when it arrived it was in the 'Like New' condition specified in the listing. However, when I saw that the seller had not shipped the book after more than 15 days had passed since my order I felt I must write to say that I had actually placed an order with the seller and inquire when it planned to send the book. The brusque reply was that a tracking number was available, but no number HAD been created until I pointed out that I had placed the order.Catland by Hughes, Kathryn, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US (#356798982438)