A Different Vision: African American Economic Thought, Volume 1

by Boston; Thomas D.

• ISBN13: 9780415095907
• ISBN10: 0415095905
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-12-13
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Since the civil rights movement of the 1960s, research into race relations has tended to focus on political and social inequality rather than the economic impact of racism.A Different Vision: African-American Economic Thoughtredresses this imbalance. It is a landmark two- volume work--the most significant contribution to the study of blacks and economics ever to have been published. A Different Visionbrings together for the first time the ideas, philosophies, and interpretations of North America's leading African-American economists. Each of the thirty-five chapters presented in these two volumes focuses on various aspects of the social and economic experiences of African-Americans, past and present. This volume dramatically illustrates that African-American economists do have "a different vision," as it offers the hard, incontrovertible evidence--as no other book has before--that when it comes to economics, race matters, and that economic inequalitycaused by race has had and continues to have an immense impact in every sphere of African-American life.Volume 1ofA Different Visionincludes an in-depth discussion of the economics of race and gender; an assessment of the contribution and influence of major African-American economists and economic philosophies, including Booker T. Washington, Abram Harris, and Phyllis Wallis; an examination of racism within the economics profession; and an accessible approach which is free of technical jargon. Volume 2offers an analysis of urban poverty; discusses aspects of racial inequality and public policy, including affirmative action, and self-help solutions; examines the theory and method which underlies public policy; and studies the impact of racism on the socio-economic status of African-Americans.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	ix	(2)
List of contributors	xi	(4)
Preface	xv
1 EDITOR'S NOTES	1	(8)
Thomas D. Boston
2 PREAMBLE: BLACKS IN THE AMERICAN ECONOMY: SUMMARY OF SELECTED RESEARCH	9	(40)
Andrew F. Brimmer
Part I Race, gender, and economics	49	(108)
3 THE AFRICAN AMERICAN AS SCHOLAR, ECONOMIST AND ACTIVIST	49	(17)
Robert S. Browne
4 THE INTERSECTIONALITY OF OPPRESSION AND ITS NEGATION OF COLOR BLIND REMEDIES: RACE CONSCIOUSNESS, RACE, CLASS, AND GENDER	66	(35)
Jerome McCristal Culp, Jr.
5 BLACK WOMEN IN THE HISTORY OF AFRICAN AMERICAN ECONOMIC THOUGHT: A CRITICAL ESSAY	101	(22)
Lynn C. Burbridge
6 MISSED OPPORTUNITY: SADIE TANNER MOSSELL ALEXANDER AND THE ECONOMICS PROFESSION	123	(6)
Julianne Malveaux
7 TITLING AGAINST THE WIND: REFLECTIONS ON THE LIFE AND WORK OF DR PHYLLIS ANN WALLACE	129	(7)
Julianne Malveaux
8 PROLEGOMENON INTO RACE AND ECONOMICS	136	(21)
Leonard Harris
Part II The economic philosophers and their vision	157	(145)
9 BOOKER T. WASHINGTON AND THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF BLACK EDUCATION IN THE UNITED STATES, 1880--1915	157	(17)
Manning Marable
10 WHY BOOKER T. WASHINGTON WAS RIGHT: A RECONSIDERATION OF THE ECONOMICS OF RACE	174	(20)
John Sibley Butler
11 BOOKER T. WASHINGTON: MYTH MAKER	194	(19)
Vernon J. Williams, Jr.
12 GEORGE EDMUND HAYNES AND THE OFFICE OF NEGRO ECONOMICS	213	(17)
James B. Stewart
13 SOUNDINGS AND SILENCES ON RACE AND SOCIAL CHANGE: ABRAM HARRIS, Jr. IN THE GREAT DEPRESSION	230	(20)
William Darity, Jr.
14 FORMULATING THE NEGATION: ABRAM HARRIS, Jr. AS CRITIC	250	(20)
Julian Ellison
15 THE POLITICAL ECONOMIC THOUGHT OF OLIVER C. COX	270	(20)
Herbert M. Hunter
16 FROM THE NEW DEAL TO THE GREAT SOCIETY: THE ECONOMIC ACTIVISM OF ROBERT C. WEAVER	290	(12)
Cecilia A. Conrad
George Sherer
Index	302