Robert E Weems
Biographic Data
| ID | 652841 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert E Weems |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert E |
| FAMILY NAME | Weems |
| SIGNATURE | WEEMS R E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Missouri |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1907-7804 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Carter Administration and African American Enterprise
Emmer M. Lancaster and the Ascendancy and Fall of the Commerce Department’s Division of Negro Affairs, 1940–1960
Epilogue
The Democratic Party and Black Capitalism during the Presidential Election of 1968
The Ford Administration and Black Capitalism
Nixon and the “Militants”
The National Response to Richard M. Nixon’s Black Capitalism Initiative
The Origins of the Commerce Department’s Division of Negro Affairs, 1925–1940
More Than Civil Rights
Mehrsa Baradaran. The Color of Money
Mehrsa Baradaran has produced an important, sobering assessment of historic and contemporary African American banks. Although The Color of Money focuses on black financial institutions, the book’s scope is much larger than an examination of a particular industry. In fact, Baradaran provides an overview of American and African American economic history from the era of slavery to the present. Consequently, the book’s title actually understates its …
Building the Black Metropolis
Building the Black Metropolis
This book examines the entrepreneurial experiences of and contributions by African American entrepreneurs in Chicago. Through a careful examination of black business activity in areas such as finance, media, and the underground economy known as “Policy,” this work illuminates the manner in which blacks in Chicago built a network of competing and cooperative enterprises and a culture of entrepreneurship unique to the city. This network lay at the …
A Man in a Woman's World
Business in Black and White
Business in Black and White provides a panoramic discussion of various initiatives that American presidents have supported to promote black business development in the United States. Many assume that U.S. government interest in promoting black entrepreneurship began with Richard Nixon's establishment of the Office of Minority Business Enterprise (OMBE) in 1969. Drawn from a variety of sources, Robert E. Weems, Jr.'s comprehensive work extends the…
The Right Man”
Despite the widely held notion that U.S. government assistance to African American entrepreneurs commenced in the late 1960s, the evidence indicates that government interest in promoting black business actually began in the 1920s. Beginning with the appointment of James A. Jackson in November 1927, the U.S. Commerce Department’s agenda, until the mid-1950s, included “Negro Affairs.” Jackson’s actions did not generate the direct financial assistan…
The Incorporation of Black Faculty at Predominantly White Institutions
This article provides a historical analysis of the incorporation experiences of the members of African American faculty at University of Missouri's Columbia campus. This article demonstrates how such individual factors as the scholarly reputation of African American faculty, coupled with departmental commitment, can go a long way to foster incorporation within university and college settings. At the same time, this article also demonstrates how a…
Hard Road to Freedom
Sejak Hard Road to Freedom dirilis, telah mendapatkan pengakuan universal. Rutgers University Press dengan bangga mengumumkan ketersediaan buku ini dalam dua volume terpisah untuk mata kuliah dalam sejarah Afrika Amerika yang berlangsung selama dua semester. Volume I mencakup bab-bab berikut: Afrika dan Perdagangan Budak Atlantik Evolusi Perbudakan dalam Perbudakan dan Kebebasan Amerika Utara di Amerika Serikat di Era Revolusi Republik Awal dan K…
The Ideological Origins of Richard M. Nixon's “Black Capitalism” Initiative
The National Response to Richard M. Nixon's Black Capitalism Initiative
Richard M. Nixon viewed an uncontrolled Black Power movement as a major threat to the internal security of the United States (during the late 1960s and early 1970s). To address this situation, Nixon developed his Black capitalism initiative as a domestic version of his widely publicized foreign policy initiative of detente (which sought to contain the power of the Soviet Union and China). Moreover, just as Nixon and Henry Kissinger linked concess…
The African American Experience
Compared to the early decades of the 20th century, when scholarly writing on African Americans was limited to a few titles on slavery, Reconstruction, and African American migration, the last thirty years have witnessed an explosion of works on the African American experience. With the Civil Rights and Black Power movements of the 1960s came an increasing demand for the study and teaching of African American history followed by the publication of…
American Dreams in Mississippi
Journal Article American Dreams in Mississippi: Consumers, Poverty, and Culture, 1830–1998. By Ted Ownby. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. xvi, 228 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8078-2479-8. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-8078-4806-9.) Get access Robert E. Weems, Jr. Robert E. Weems, Jr. University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume…
Desegregating the Dollar
Capitalism and slavery stand as the two economic phenomena that have most clearly defined the United States. Yet, despite African Americans' nearly $500 billion annual spending power, surprisingly little attention has been devoted to the ways U.S. businesses have courted black dollars in post-slavery America. Robert E. Weems, Jr., presents the first fully integrated history of black consumerism over the course of the last century. The World War I…
Paleocene Turtle Remains from South Carolina
J. Howard Hutchison, Robert E. Weems, Paleocene Turtle Remains from South Carolina, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series, Vol. 88, No. 4, Paleobiology of the Williamsburg Formation (Black Mingo Group; Paleocene) of South Carolina, U. S. A. (1998), pp. 165-195
Actinopterygian Fish Remains from the Paleocene of South Carolina
Robert E. Weems, Actinopterygian Fish Remains from the Paleocene of South Carolina, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series, Vol. 88, No. 4, Paleobiology of the Williamsburg Formation (Black Mingo Group; Paleocene) of South Carolina, U. S. A. (1998), pp. 147-164
Black Business in the Black Metropolis
Desegregating the Dollar
Capitalism and slavery stand as the two economic phenomena that have most clearly defined the United States. Yet, despite African Americans' nearly $500 billion annual spending power, surprisingly little attention has been devoted to the ways U.S. businesses have courted black dollars in post-slavery America. Robert E. Weems, Jr., presents the first fully integrated history of black consumerism over the course of the last century. The World War I…
A Crumbling Legacy
African American insurance companies, since the 1960s, have experienced a significant decline in their profitability and stature. Because of recent racial desegregation, which in an economic sense consists of white-controlled businesses and black consumers increasing their interaction with each other, black insurers are waging an increasingly difficult struggle to survive. It appears the only way African American insurance companies can counterac…
Black Business in the Black Metropolis
American Dreams in Mississippi
Journal Article American Dreams in Mississippi: Consumers, Poverty, and Culture, 1830–1998. By Ted Ownby. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. xvi, 228 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8078-2479-8. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-8078-4806-9.) Get access Robert E. Weems, Jr. Robert E. Weems, Jr. University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume…
The Ideological Origins of Richard M. Nixon's “Black Capitalism” Initiative
Coming into Focus
Journal Article Coming into Focus: The Treatment of African Americans in Post—Civil War United States History Survey Texts Get access Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua, Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua assistant professor of history University of Missouri-Columbia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Robert E. Weems, Jr. Robert E. Weems, Jr. director of the Black Studies Program and assistant professor of history University of Miss…
The Right Man”
Despite the widely held notion that U.S. government assistance to African American entrepreneurs commenced in the late 1960s, the evidence indicates that government interest in promoting black business actually began in the 1920s. Beginning with the appointment of James A. Jackson in November 1927, the U.S. Commerce Department’s agenda, until the mid-1950s, included “Negro Affairs.” Jackson’s actions did not generate the direct financial assistan…
The National Response to Richard M. Nixon's Black Capitalism Initiative
Richard M. Nixon viewed an uncontrolled Black Power movement as a major threat to the internal security of the United States (during the late 1960s and early 1970s). To address this situation, Nixon developed his Black capitalism initiative as a domestic version of his widely publicized foreign policy initiative of detente (which sought to contain the power of the Soviet Union and China). Moreover, just as Nixon and Henry Kissinger linked concess…
Geology of the Cainhoy, Charleston, Fort Moultrie, and North Charleston quadrangles, Charleston and Berkeley counties, South Carolina
Geology of the Cainhoy, Charleston, Fort Moultrie, and North Charleston quadrangles, Charleston and Berkeley counties, South Carolina
Robert A. Cole and the Metropolitan Funeral System Association
A Crumbling Legacy
African American insurance companies, since the 1960s, have experienced a significant decline in their profitability and stature. Because of recent racial desegregation, which in an economic sense consists of white-controlled businesses and black consumers increasing their interaction with each other, black insurers are waging an increasingly difficult struggle to survive. It appears the only way African American insurance companies can counterac…
Coming into Focus
Journal Article Coming into Focus: The Treatment of African Americans in Post—Civil War United States History Survey Texts Get access Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua, Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua assistant professor of history University of Missouri-Columbia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Robert E. Weems, Jr. Robert E. Weems, Jr. director of the Black Studies Program and assistant professor of history University of Miss…
The Revolution Will be Marketed
Research Article| May 01 1994 The Revolution Will be Marketed: American Corporations and Black Consumers During the 1960s Robert E. Weems, Jr. Robert E. Weems, Jr. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1994) 1994 (59): 94–107. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1994-59-94 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Robert E. Weems; The Revolution Will be Marketed: American Co…
Geology of the Clubhouse Crossroads and Osborn quadrangles, Charleston and Dorchester counties, South Carolina
Geologic map of the Supply quadrangle, Caroline and Essex Counties, Virginia
Black Business in the Black Metropolis
Black Business in the Black Metropolis
Black Business in the Black Metropolis: The Chicago Metropolitan Assurance Company, 1925–1985. By Robert E. Weems Jr. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996. xx, 158 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-253-33025-4.) Get access Theodore Kornweibel, Jr. Theodore Kornweibel, Jr. San Diego State University, San Diego, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 1, June 1997, P…
Paleocene Turtle Remains from South Carolina
J. Howard Hutchison, Robert E. Weems, Paleocene Turtle Remains from South Carolina, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series, Vol. 88, No. 4, Paleobiology of the Williamsburg Formation (Black Mingo Group; Paleocene) of South Carolina, U. S. A. (1998), pp. 165-195
Actinopterygian Fish Remains from the Paleocene of South Carolina
Robert E. Weems, Actinopterygian Fish Remains from the Paleocene of South Carolina, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series, Vol. 88, No. 4, Paleobiology of the Williamsburg Formation (Black Mingo Group; Paleocene) of South Carolina, U. S. A. (1998), pp. 147-164
Desegregating the Dollar
Capitalism and slavery stand as the two economic phenomena that have most clearly defined the United States. Yet, despite African Americans' nearly $500 billion annual spending power, surprisingly little attention has been devoted to the ways U.S. businesses have courted black dollars in post-slavery America. Robert E. Weems, Jr., presents the first fully integrated history of black consumerism over the course of the last century. The World War I…
The African American Experience
Compared to the early decades of the 20th century, when scholarly writing on African Americans was limited to a few titles on slavery, Reconstruction, and African American migration, the last thirty years have witnessed an explosion of works on the African American experience. With the Civil Rights and Black Power movements of the 1960s came an increasing demand for the study and teaching of African American history followed by the publication of…
American Dreams in Mississippi
Journal Article American Dreams in Mississippi: Consumers, Poverty, and Culture, 1830–1998. By Ted Ownby. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. xvi, 228 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8078-2479-8. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-8078-4806-9.) Get access Robert E. Weems, Jr. Robert E. Weems, Jr. University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume…
The Ideological Origins of Richard M. Nixon's “Black Capitalism” Initiative
The National Response to Richard M. Nixon's Black Capitalism Initiative
Richard M. Nixon viewed an uncontrolled Black Power movement as a major threat to the internal security of the United States (during the late 1960s and early 1970s). To address this situation, Nixon developed his Black capitalism initiative as a domestic version of his widely publicized foreign policy initiative of detente (which sought to contain the power of the Soviet Union and China). Moreover, just as Nixon and Henry Kissinger linked concess…
Hard Road to Freedom
Sejak Hard Road to Freedom dirilis, telah mendapatkan pengakuan universal. Rutgers University Press dengan bangga mengumumkan ketersediaan buku ini dalam dua volume terpisah untuk mata kuliah dalam sejarah Afrika Amerika yang berlangsung selama dua semester. Volume I mencakup bab-bab berikut: Afrika dan Perdagangan Budak Atlantik Evolusi Perbudakan dalam Perbudakan dan Kebebasan Amerika Utara di Amerika Serikat di Era Revolusi Republik Awal dan K…
The Incorporation of Black Faculty at Predominantly White Institutions
This article provides a historical analysis of the incorporation experiences of the members of African American faculty at University of Missouri's Columbia campus. This article demonstrates how such individual factors as the scholarly reputation of African American faculty, coupled with departmental commitment, can go a long way to foster incorporation within university and college settings. At the same time, this article also demonstrates how a…
The Right Man”
Despite the widely held notion that U.S. government assistance to African American entrepreneurs commenced in the late 1960s, the evidence indicates that government interest in promoting black business actually began in the 1920s. Beginning with the appointment of James A. Jackson in November 1927, the U.S. Commerce Department’s agenda, until the mid-1950s, included “Negro Affairs.” Jackson’s actions did not generate the direct financial assistan…
Business in Black and White
Business in Black and White provides a panoramic discussion of various initiatives that American presidents have supported to promote black business development in the United States. Many assume that U.S. government interest in promoting black entrepreneurship began with Richard Nixon's establishment of the Office of Minority Business Enterprise (OMBE) in 1969. Drawn from a variety of sources, Robert E. Weems, Jr.'s comprehensive work extends the…
A Man in a Woman's World
Building the Black Metropolis
Building the Black Metropolis
This book examines the entrepreneurial experiences of and contributions by African American entrepreneurs in Chicago. Through a careful examination of black business activity in areas such as finance, media, and the underground economy known as “Policy,” this work illuminates the manner in which blacks in Chicago built a network of competing and cooperative enterprises and a culture of entrepreneurship unique to the city. This network lay at the …
Mehrsa Baradaran. The Color of Money
Mehrsa Baradaran has produced an important, sobering assessment of historic and contemporary African American banks. Although The Color of Money focuses on black financial institutions, the book’s scope is much larger than an examination of a particular industry. In fact, Baradaran provides an overview of American and African American economic history from the era of slavery to the present. Consequently, the book’s title actually understates its …
The Carter Administration and African American Enterprise
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