Freedom Enterprise ? Black Entrepreneurship and Racial Capitalism in Detroit
Black Entrepreneurship and Racial Capitalism in Detroit
Series: American Business, Politics, and Society;
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Product details:
- Publisher MT ? University of Pennsylvania Press
- Date of Publication 28 April 2025
- Number of Volumes Print PDF
- ISBN 9781512827422
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages360 pages
- Size 238x164x33 mm
- Weight 662 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 2 maps, 20 b/w ills., 1 table 700
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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.
"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." More
