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Article: The History of Black Business in America: Capitalism, Race, Entrepreneurship
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- Business History Review
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- April 1, 2007
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The History of Black Business in America: Capitalism, Race, Entrepreneurship. By Juliet E. K. Walker. Woodbridge, Conn.: Twayne, 1998. 482 pp. Cloth, $52.00. ISBN: 0-805-71650-5.
Reviewed by Maceo Crenshaw Dailey Jr.
The History of Black Business in America, by Juliet Walker, is the textbook I assign for my seminar, Teaching Entrepreneurship across the Curricula, which I have offered to juniors and seniors since 2005 with funding from a grant offered by the Marion Ewing Kauffman Foundation. My students start out with a narrow perspective on black history, viewing it as a series of protests or "firsts," or as Carter G. Woodson once observed, "history in superlatives." Their attitude toward ...