BHC Collective Bibliography

Blaszczyk, Regina Lee. Imagining Consumers: Design and Innovation from Wedgwood to Corning. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024.

Ficker, Sandra Kuntz. "El comercio de México con Oriente, 1821-1870. Un primer acercamiento desde las importaciones." Historia Mexicana 70, no. 2 (2020/09/24): 685-739.

Freeman, Tyrone McKinley. Madam C. J. Walker's gospel of giving: black women's philanthropy during Jim Crow. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2024.

Gill, Tiffany M. Beauty shop politics: African American women's activism in the beauty industry. Urbana ; Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2024.

Gilligan, Maureen Carroll. Female corporate culture and the new South: women in business between the world wars. New York: Garland Pub, 1999.

Gordon, Sarah A. "Make It Yourself": Home Sewing, Gender, and Culture, 1890-1930. New York: Columbia University Press, 2024.

Horan, Caley. Insurance Era: Risk, Governance, and the Privatization of Security in Postwar America. University of Chicago Press, 2021.

House-Soremekun, Bessie. "The Impact of Economic Culture on the Business Success of African American Entrepreneurs." In Black business and economic power, edited by Jalloh, Alusine, and Toyin Falola. Rochester, N.Y: University of Rochester Press, 2024.

Ingham, John N. "Patterns of African American Female Self-Employment and Entrepreneurship in Ten Southern Cities, 1880-1930." In Black business and economic power, edited by Jalloh, Alusine, and Toyin Falola. Rochester, N.Y: University of Rochester Press, 2024.

Jasen, David A., and Gene Jones. Spreadin' rhythm around: Black popular songwriters, 1880-1930. New York ; London: Schirmer Books ; Prentice Hall International, 1998.

Jenkins, Carol, and Elizabeth Gardner Hines. Black Titan: A.G. Gaston and the making of a Black American millionaire. New York: One World, 2024.

Joyce, Donald F. Gatekeepers of black culture: black-owned book publishing in the United States, 1817-1981. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1983.

Levenstein, Margaret. "African American entrepreneurship: The view from the 1910 census." In Immigrant and minority entrepreneurship: the continuous rebirth of American communities, edited by Butler, John S., and George Kozmetsky. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2024.

Lewis, Susan Ingalls. Unexceptional Women. Female Proprietors in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Albany, New York, 1830-1885. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2024.

Lomax, Michael E. Black baseball entrepreneurs, 1860-1901: operating by any means necessary. 1st ed. Syracuse, N.Y: Syracuse University Press, 2024.

Lowry, Beverly. Her dream of dreams: the rise and triumph of Madam C.J. Walker. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2024.

Overmyer, James. Queen of the Negro leagues: Effa Manley and the Newark Eagles. Lanham, Md: Scarecrow Press, 1998.

Pulley, Brett. The billion dollar BET: Robert Johnson and the inside story of Black Entertainment Television. Hoboken, N.J: John Wiley, 2024.

Smith, Cheryl A. Market women: black women entrepreneurs--past, present, and future. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2024.

Verney, Kevern. The art of the possible: Booker T. Washington and Black leadership in the United States, 1881-1925. New York: Routledge, 2024.

Walker, Juliet E. K., eds. Encyclopedia of African American business history. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 1999.

Woloson, Wendy A. In Hock: Pawning in America from Independence through the Great Depression. University of Chicago Press, 2024.