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Confronting the Odds African American Entrepreneurship in Cleveland, Ohio 2002, 232
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courtesy of our partner, Atlas Books |
A thought-provoking and prescriptive analysis of minority entrepreneurship on the local level.
An interest in the history of African American entrepreneurship has produced a number of studies of economic development on the national level, but very few have examined this growth at the local level. Confronting the Odds was written to bridge that gap. Bessie House Soremekum provides a historical analysis of black entrepreneurship in Cleveland, Ohio, from the early 1800s to the present day. Soremekum's statistical analysis of the factors that contributed to the success of African American businesses in Cleveland is supported by extensive research, and her policy recommendations about how entrepreneurship could be stimulated through public and private programs are thought provoking.
