African Americans in the U.S. Economy

Over the last several decades, academic discourse on racial inequality has focused primarily on political and social issues with significantly less attention on the complex interplay between race and economics. African Americans in the U.S. Economy represents a contribution to recent scholarship that seeks to lessen this imbalance.

This book builds upon, and significantly extends, the principles, terminology, and methods of standard economics and black political economy. Influenced by path-...