Elsie Harper-Anderson
Biographic Data
| ID | 4408864 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elsie Harper-Anderson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elsie |
| FAMILY NAME | Harper-Anderson |
| SIGNATURE | HARPER-ANDERSON E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Virginia Commonwealth University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8182-0366 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Social capital and housing at the urban periphery: Lessons from a government-led housing development program in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Race, Space, and Trauma: Using Community Accountability for Healing Justice
Problem, research strategy, and findings Discriminatory planning decisions and practices, guided by dominant White spatial imaginaries, result in physical, economic, and culturally racialized spaces of trauma, contributing to the unjust destruction of Black and Brown communities. The continuous cycle of planning injustice coupled with economic and physical neglect by planning in communities of color has amounted to what some scholars call slow vi…
Contemporary Black Entrepreneurship in the Professional Service Sector of Chicago: Intersections of Race, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Transformation
Entrepreneurship could level the playing field between racial groups and decrease poverty through job creation. Growth in the U.S. professional services (PS) sector over the last several decades has increased high-wage employment and entrepreneurship opportunities. Although the number of Black-owned PS businesses has grown, their performance lags behind their counterparts of other races. Black entrepreneurs in highly skilled sectors, such as PS, …
Integrating Entrepreneurship Services into Local Workforce Development Systems: Who is Doing It and How
Entrepreneurship has been touted as a potential tool for reducing inequities and poverty in urban areas. This study examines how public workforce funds are being used to support entrepreneurship based on survey responses from administrators in four states. Results suggest that few workforce funds are being used to support entrepreneurship and when they are, it is more likely affluent communities than disadvantaged ones. This could mean that impor…
Benchmarks and Barriers: African American Experiences in the Corporate Bay Area's New Economy Sector of the 1990s
Macroeconomic transformations of the late 1990s resulted in a new economy full of employment opportunities and financial rewards leading many to assume that race was less significant and anyone with adequate skills and knowledge could prosper. This research uses interviews with new economy employees in the San Francisco region to understand why during the economic boom period, rewards between highly qualified blacks and whites remained differenti…
Contemporary Black Entrepreneurship in the Professional Service Sector of Chicago: Intersections of Race, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Transformation
Entrepreneurship could level the playing field between racial groups and decrease poverty through job creation. Growth in the U.S. professional services (PS) sector over the last several decades has increased high-wage employment and entrepreneurship opportunities. Although the number of Black-owned PS businesses has grown, their performance lags behind their counterparts of other races. Black entrepreneurs in highly skilled sectors, such as PS, …
Benchmarks and Barriers: African American Experiences in the Corporate Bay Area's New Economy Sector of the 1990s
Macroeconomic transformations of the late 1990s resulted in a new economy full of employment opportunities and financial rewards leading many to assume that race was less significant and anyone with adequate skills and knowledge could prosper. This research uses interviews with new economy employees in the San Francisco region to understand why during the economic boom period, rewards between highly qualified blacks and whites remained differenti…
Benchmarks and Barriers: African American Experiences in the Corporate Bay Area's New Economy Sector of the 1990s
Macroeconomic transformations of the late 1990s resulted in a new economy full of employment opportunities and financial rewards leading many to assume that race was less significant and anyone with adequate skills and knowledge could prosper. This research uses interviews with new economy employees in the San Francisco region to understand why during the economic boom period, rewards between highly qualified blacks and whites remained differenti…
Integrating Entrepreneurship Services into Local Workforce Development Systems: Who is Doing It and How
Entrepreneurship has been touted as a potential tool for reducing inequities and poverty in urban areas. This study examines how public workforce funds are being used to support entrepreneurship based on survey responses from administrators in four states. Results suggest that few workforce funds are being used to support entrepreneurship and when they are, it is more likely affluent communities than disadvantaged ones. This could mean that impor…
Contemporary Black Entrepreneurship in the Professional Service Sector of Chicago: Intersections of Race, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Transformation
Entrepreneurship could level the playing field between racial groups and decrease poverty through job creation. Growth in the U.S. professional services (PS) sector over the last several decades has increased high-wage employment and entrepreneurship opportunities. Although the number of Black-owned PS businesses has grown, their performance lags behind their counterparts of other races. Black entrepreneurs in highly skilled sectors, such as PS, …
Race, Space, and Trauma: Using Community Accountability for Healing Justice
Problem, research strategy, and findings Discriminatory planning decisions and practices, guided by dominant White spatial imaginaries, result in physical, economic, and culturally racialized spaces of trauma, contributing to the unjust destruction of Black and Brown communities. The continuous cycle of planning injustice coupled with economic and physical neglect by planning in communities of color has amounted to what some scholars call slow vi…
Social capital and housing at the urban periphery: Lessons from a government-led housing development program in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Economic growth (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Accountability (2 works) · Development economics (2 works) · Entrepreneurship (2 works)