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Entrepreneurial Uplift and the Making of a Black Modernity, 1910-37.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Entrepreneurial Uplift and the Making of a Black Modernity, 1910-37./
Author:	Coombs, Adam.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2017,
Description:	280 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-10(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International78-10A(E).
Subject:	British & Irish literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10277157
ISBN:	9781369776218

Entrepreneurial Uplift and the Making of a Black Modernity, 1910-37.
Coombs, Adam.

Entrepreneurial Uplift and the Making of a Black Modernity, 1910-37. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2017 - 280 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-10(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 2017.

This dissertation argues that black business leaders and artists of the early 20th Century constructed cultural narratives of black-owned businesses that linked individual financial success to the uplift of the race. Arguing that the confluence of these ideas shapes and is shaped by gender norms, I locate this tension in novels, biographies, marketing material, and personal correspondence from writers and entrepreneurs Annie Malone, John Merrick, Philip A. Payton Jr., Aubrey Bowser, Otis Shackelford, W. E. B. Du Bois, Jessie Fauset, Madam C.J. Walker, and Zora Neale Hurston. As an act of literary historical recovery, "Entrepreneurial Uplift and the Making of a Black Modernity, 1910-37" foregrounds the literary sensibilities that guide under-studied or unpublished literary, marketing, and biographical material by and about business leaders. This methodology suggests that the overlap of business and fictional writing crystallize the role of literary devices in the making of entrepreneurial uplift. Each of these sources employ either personal narratives or narratives about their businesses that oscillate between individual achievement and racial uplift. Recovering these largely forgotten narratives clarifies how many prominent black leaders in the "post-bellum, pre-Harlem" era encouraged the development of black-owned businesses as simultaneously resistance and accommodation to Jim Crow segregation. The politics of respectability assumes a significant component of the framing and rhetorical work of black business by attempting to gain entrance to mainstream society through the cultivation of conservative middle and upper class values. Even as black businesses sought to revise prevailing narratives about blackness, they also reproduced limiting gender norms. Over the course of four chapters, I trace the development of entrepreneurial uplift as a cultural strategy to show its centrality to the construction and maintenance of modern gender norms. Through close reading, discourse analysis, and original archival research, I demonstrate that narratives of entrepreneurial uplift conflated discourses of respectability, business, and civic engagement in their project of economic self-determination.

ISBN: 9781369776218Subjects--Topical Terms:

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British & Irish literature.

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