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A visit with Robert Weems, Professor, History Department
Published: October 05, 2006 - Topics:
history,
black_capitalism,
Nixon,
economics,
African_American,
Additional Interview Clips
Weems’ current research project
Drawing on secondary historical literature
The African-American Experience: An Historiographical and Bibliographic Guide (2001)
Why are black businesses disappearing from America’s landscape? The economic dimension of desegregation
Desegregating the Dollar: How white corporate America profited from desegregation and the Civil Rights Movement
Practical applications for understanding history: Weems’ recent work
The need for further national discussion about stimulating black economic development today
The personal motivation for Weems’ research
Weems’ personal background and advice to graduate students
What primary research looks like for a historian
Topics:
historical_research,
national_archives,
What began as a one-book project, with Lewis Randolph, has turned into a two-volume work. The first looks at the 1920s Division of Negro Affairs up to the Nixon administration, while the second poses the question, “Whatever happened to black capitalism?” and looks at the Ford administration.