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Auteur(s) : Garrett-Scott, Shennette
Titre(s) : Banking on freedom [Texte imprimé] : black women in U.S. finance before the New Deal / Shennette Garrett-Scott
Publication : New York (N. Y.) : Columbia University Press, copyright 2019
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XI-273 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm
Collection : Columbia studies in the history of U.S. capitalism
Lien à la collection : Columbia studies in the history of U.S. capitalism
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. [257]-266. Index
Between 1888 and 1930, African Americans opened more than a hundred banks and thousands
of other financial institutions. In Banking on Freedom, Shennette Garrett-Scott explores
this rich period of black financial innovation and its transformative impact on U.S.
capitalism through the story of the St. Luke Bank in Richmond, Virginia: the first
and only bank run by black women. Banking on Freedom offers an unparalleled account
of how black women carved out economic, social, and political power in contexts shaped
by sexism, white supremacy, and capitalist exploitation. Garrett-Scott chronicles
both the bank's success and the challenges this success wrought, including extralegal
violence and aggressive oversight from state actors who saw black economic autonomy
as a threat to both democratic capitalism and the social order. The teller cage and
boardroom became sites of activism and resistance as the leadership of president Maggie
Lena Walker and other women board members kept the bank grounded in meeting the needs
of working-class black women. The first book to center black women's engagement with
the elite sectors of banking, finance, and insurance, Banking on Freedom reveals the
ways gender, race, and class shaped the meanings of wealth and risk in U.S. capitalism
and society
Sujet(s) : Femmes dans la finance -- États-Unis -- 1800-....
Travailleuses noires américaines -- 1800-....
Banques -- Personnel féminin -- États-Unis -- 1800-....
Indice(s) Dewey :
332.109 73 (23e éd.) = Banques - États-Unis
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780231183901 (rel.). - ISBN 0231183909 (erroné). - ISBN 9780231183918 (erroné).
- ISBN 0231183917 (erroné). - ISBN 9780231545211 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb468748458
Notice n° :
FRBNF46874845
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Table des matières : Introduction -- ; "I am yet waitin": African American women and free labor banking
experiments in the emancipation-era South, 1860s-1900 -- ; "Who is so helpless as
the Negro woman?": the independent order of St. Luke and the quest for economic security,
1856-1902 -- ; "Let us have a bank": St. Luke Penny Savings Bank, economic activism,
and state regulation, 1903-World War I -- ; Rituals of risk and respectability: gendered
economic practices, credit, and debt to World War I -- ; "A good, strong, hustling
woman": financing the new Negro in the new era, 1920-1929 -- ; Epilogue.
