Despite African Americans' nearly $500 billion collective annual spending power, surprisingly little attention has been devoted to the ways U.S. businesses have

Until now, most works on the history of African Americans in advertising have focused on the depiction of blacks in advertisements. As the first comprehensive e

In this book, Traci Parker examines the movement to racially integrate white-collar work and consumption in American department stores, and broadens our underst

In Black Americans and Organized Labor, Paul D. Moreno offers a bold reinterpretation of the role of race and racial discrimination in the American labor moveme

A multifaceted approach to understanding the central developments in African American history since 1939. It combines a historical overview of key personalities