Books
Black Business in the Black Metropolis: The Chicago Metropolitan Assurance Company, 19251985, Indiana University Press, "Blacks in the Diaspora Series," 1996
Desegregating the Dollar: African American Consumerism in the Twentieth Century, New York
University Press, 1998
Business in Black and White: American Presidents and Black Entrepreneurs in the Twentieth
Century, New York University Press, 2009
Articles/ Sections of Books
“African American Consumers Since World War II,” in Kenneth L. Kusmer and Joe W. Trotter,
eds., African American Urban History Since World War II, University of Chicago Press, 2009.
‟Africana Studies and the Quest For Black Economic Empowerment: What Can Be Done,” in
James L. Conyers, Jr. Law , Culture & Africana Studies, Africana Studies, Volume 2 Transaction
Publishers, 2007.
“A Tragic Ambivalence: African American Confusion Regarding Their Economic Self-Interest”
in Clenora Hudson-Weems, ed. Contemporary Africana Theory and Thought , Africa World
Press, 2007
‟Racial Desegregation and the Destruction of Black Urban Landmarks,” in Edward Ramsamy
and Gayle T.Tate, eds. The Black Experience in America, Kendall-Hunt Publishing Company,
2006.
‟Robert Alexander Cole: Insurance Company President, Professional Gambler, Humanitarian,”
in Edward Ramsamy and Gayle T.Tate, eds. The Black Experience in America, Kendall-Hunt
Publishing Company, 2006.
“The Right Man: James A. Jackson and the Origins of U. S. Government Interest In Black
Business, ” (with Lewis A. Randolph) Enterprise & Society 6 June, 2005.
“Black-Owned Banks: Past and Present” (with Gary Dymski) in Cecelia Conrad, John
Whiterhead, Patrick Mason, and James Stewart eds. African Americans in the United States
Economy, Rowan & Littlefield Publishers, 2005.
“‘Bling-Bling’ and Other Recent Trends in African American Consumerism” in Cecelia Conrad,
John Whitehead, Patrick Mason, and James Stewart eds. African Americans in the United States
Economy Rowan & Littlefield Publishers, 2005.
“Where Did All Our Customers Go?: Historic Black-Owned Businesses and the African
AmericanConsumer Market,” in Alusine Jalloh and Toyin Falola eds. Black Business and
Economic Power,University of Rochester Press, 2002.
“The End of Black Nationalism?: Declining African American Consumer Support for BlackOwned Businesses,” in James L. Conyers, Jr. ed. Black Cultures and Race Relations Chicago:
Burnham Publishers, 2002.
“The National Response To Richard M. Nixon’s ‘Black Capitalism’ Initiative: The Success of
Domestic Detente,” (with Lewis A. Randolph) Journal of Black Studies, 32 September, 2001.
“The Ideological Origins of Richard M. Nixon’s ‘Black Capitalism’ Initiative” (with Lewis A.
Randolph), The Review of Black Political Economy, 29 Summer 2001.
"African American Consumerism" in Arvarh E. Strickland and Robert E. Weems, Jr. eds., The
African American Experience: An Historiographical and Bibliographical Guide Greenwood
Publishers, 2001.
"Consumerism and the Construction of Black Female Identity in Twentieth-Century America,"
in Jennifer Scanlon, ed. Gender and Consumer Culture: A Reader New York University Press,
2000.
"Economic Self-Destruction?: African American Consumerism in the 1990s," in John Whitehead
and Colbi Harris, eds. Readings in Black Political Economy Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company,
1999.
"The Decline of Black Business in Contemporary America: An Economic Consequence of the
Civil Rights Movement," in Leonard L. Bethel, ed. Introduction to Africana Studies
Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, 1999.
"Twentieth Century African American Consumerism: An Overview," in Larry L. Martin, ed.
African Americans in Business: The Path Towards Empowerment 1998 Black History Month
Learning Resource Package Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History, Inc.,
1997.
"Out of the Shadows: Business Enterprise and African American Historiography," Business and
Economic History, 26 Fall, 1997.
"African-American Consumer Boycotts During The Civil Rights Era," Western Journal of Black
Studies, 19 Spring, 1995.
"A Crumbling Legacy: The Decline Of African-American Insurance Companies in
Contemporary America," The Review of Black Political Economy, 23 Fall, 1994.
"The Revolution Will Be Marketed: American Corporations and Black Consumers During the
1960s," Radical History Review, 54 Spring, 1994.
"A Blueprint For African-American Economic Development," Western Journal of Black Studies,
17 Summer, 1993.
"The Chicago Metropolitan Mutual Assurance Company: A Profile of a Historic Black-Owned
Enterprise," Illinois Historical Journal, 86 Spring, 1993.
"Robert A. Cole and The Metropolitan Funeral System Association: A Profile of a Civic-Minded
African-American Businessman," Journal of Negro History, 78 Winter, 1993.