Intersectionality and Ethnic Entrepreneurship

ISBN-13: 9780367229801 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 170 str.

Zulema Valdez; Mary Romero

Opis

This book applies an intersectional perspective to the study of ethnic entrepreneurship. The studies in this volume recognize that multiple dimensions of identity intermix to condition entrepreneurial outcomes. This book was originally published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.

Spis treści

Introduction to the special issue: intersectionality and entrepreneurship  1. Entrepreneurship and interracial dynamics: a case study of self-employed Africans and Chinese in Guangzhou, China  2. New migrant businesses and their workers: developing, but not transforming, the ethnic economy  3. Intersectionality, the household economy, and ethnic entrepreneurship  4. Latino/a professionals as entrepreneurs: how race, class, and gender shape entrepreneurial incorporation  5. Economic empathy in family entrepreneurship: Mexican-origin street vendor children and their parents  6. Race, gender, and class in entrepreneurship: intersectional counterframes and black business owners  7. A critical race theory approach to black American entrepreneurship

O autorze

Zulema Valdez is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California at Merced, USA. She is the author of The New Entrepreneurs: How Race, Class, and Gender Shape American Enterprise (2011) and Entrepreneurs and the Search for the American Dream (2015).

Mary Romero is Professor of Justice Studies and Social Inquiry at Arizona State University, USA. She is the author of The Maid’s Daughter: Living Inside and Outside the American Dream (2011) and Maid in the U.S.A. (1992, 2002).