Shennette Garrett-Scott

Banking on Freedom

Black Women in U.S. Finance Before the New Deal

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Produktbeschreibung

Shennette Garrett-Scott explores black financial innovation and its transformative impact on U.S. capitalism through the story of the St. Luke Bank in Richmond, Virginia: the first and only bank run by black women. Banking on Freedom offers an unparalleled account of how black women carved out economic, social, and political power.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Mai 2019
• Abmessung: 227mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 460g
• ISBN-13: 9780231183918
• ISBN-10: 0231183917
• Artikelnr.: 54680919

Autorenporträt

Shennette Garrett-Scott is associate professor of history and African American studies at the University of Mississippi. She is the author of Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance Before the New Deal.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. "I Am Yet Waitin": African American Women and Free Labor Banking
Experiments in the Emancipation-Era South, 1860s-1900
2. "Who Is So Helpless as the Negro Woman?": The Independent Order of St.
Luke and the Quest for Economic Security, 1856-1902
3. "Let Us Have a Bank": St. Luke Penny Savings Bank, Economic Activism,
and State Regulation, 1903 to World War I
4. Rituals of Risk and Respectability: Gendered Economic Practices, Credit,
and Debt to World War I
5. "A Good, Strong, Hustling Woman": Financing the New Negro in the New
Era, 1920-1929
Epilogue
Appendix
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index