Our Black Year: One Family's Quest to Buy Black in America's Racially Divided Economy
One Family's Quest to Buy Black in America's Racially Divided Economy
$39.80
- Paperback
298 pages
- Release Date
13 May 2013
Summary
Maggie and John Anderson were successful African American professionals raising two daughters in a tony suburb of Chicago. But they felt uneasy over their good fortune. Most African Americans live in economically starved neighbourhoods. Black wealth is about one tenth of white wealth, and black businesses lag behind businesses of all other racial groups in every measure of success. One problem is that black consumers- unlike consumers of other ethnicities- choose not to support black-owned b…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781610392280 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1610392280 |
| Author: | Maggie Anderson |
| Publisher: | PublicAffairs |
| Imprint: | PublicAffairs,U.S. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 298 |
| Release Date: | 13 May 2013 |
| Weight: | 318g |
| Dimensions: | 18mm x 140mm x 208mm |
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About The Author
Maggie Anderson
Maggie Anderson is professor of English at Kent State University and director of the Northeast Ohio MFA program. She also directs the Wick Poetry Center and edits the Wick Poetry Series of the Kent State University Press. She has published Windfall: New and Selected Poems, Cold Comfort, and A Space Filled with Moving and is coeditor of two anthologies, After the Bell: Contemporary American Prose about School and Learning By Heart: Contemporary American Poetry about School.
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