"A work that examines history in its own skin. At a time when scholarship is praising immigrant entrepreneurship in America, it is great to see a book that says, 'Black America has been there, done that, and got the T-Shirt.' A work that should bind the past with the future because it recreates a model of business success that holds the key to the future. An American Story well done."--John Sibley Butler, author of Entrepreneurship and Self-Help Among Black Americans: A Reconsideration of Race and Economics
A major contribution on the Black Metropolis as a black business movement, a black public sphere, and visions of freedom in the city.--Quincy T. Mills, Cutting Along the Color Line: Black Barbers and Barber Shops in America