"He ran his business like a white man" : race, entrepreneurship, and the early National Negro Business League in the New South

Simple item page
dc.contributor.advisorWalker, Juliet E. K., 1940-
dc.creatorGarrett-Scott, Shennette Moniqueen
dc.date.accessioned2015-06-11T14:23:15Zen
dc.date.available2015-06-11T14:23:15Zen
dc.date.issued2006-12en
dc.descriptiontexten
dc.description.abstractBooker T. Washington organized the National Negro Business League (NNBL) in 1900, and it became the largest and most influential black business organization for much of the twentieth century. Enterprising black men and women in the NNBL linked their entrepreneurial activities to a modern, progressive social and political agenda. They relied on discourses of race, nation, and business that were both modern, radical, and progressive and traditional, conservative, and reactionary. The thesis moves beyond prosaic debates about the efficacy of black business and black economic nationalism to consider how black entrepreneurs in the NNBL interacted with the material and cultural dimensions of the political economy. A disconnect often existed between the grand ambitions of the executive leadership and the intrigues of the local league membership. Race and entrepreneurship drew attention to lapses in the rhetoric of progress and change in the New South. Finally, it looks at interracial cooperation and conflict in the NNBL. By privileging blacks' struggles for liberation, the thesis enhances understanding about the many ways blacks struggled to strike a tenable balance between personal agency and structural constraints.en
dc.description.departmentHistoryen
dc.format.mediumelectronicen
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2152/30160en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.rightsCopyright is held by the author. Presentation of this material on the Libraries' web site by University Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin was made possible under a limited license grant from the author who has retained all copyrights in the works.en
dc.rights.restrictionRestricteden
dc.subjectCivil rightsen
dc.subjectNational Negro Business Leagueen
dc.subjectBooker T. Washingtonen
dc.title"He ran his business like a white man" : race, entrepreneurship, and the early National Negro Business League in the New Southen
dc.typeThesisen
thesis.degree.departmentHistoryen
thesis.degree.disciplineHistoryen
thesis.degree.grantorThe University of Texas at Austinen
thesis.degree.levelMastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Artsen

Access full-text files

Original bundle

Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
No Thumbnail Available
Name:
txu-oclc-85815199.pdf
Size:
569.23 KB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format
Description:
Access restricted to UT Austin EID holders
Download

License bundle

Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
No Thumbnail Available
Name:
license.txt
Size:
1.66 KB
Format:
Item-specific license agreed upon to submission
Description:
Download

Collections

UT Electronic Theses and Dissertations