A White-Collar Profession (eBook)

African American Certified Public Accountants since 1921

Theresa A. Hammond (Autor)

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2003
232 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-0-8078-7494-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Among the major professions, certified public accountancy has the most severe underrepresentation of African Americans: less than 1 percent of CPAs are black. Theresa Hammond explores the history behind this statistic and chronicles the courage and determination of African Americans who sought to enter the field. In the process, she expands our understanding of the links between race, education, and economics. Drawing on interviews with pioneering black CPAs, among other sources, Hammond sets the stories of black CPAs against the backdrop of the rise of accountancy as a profession, the particular challenges that African Americans trying to enter the field faced, and the strategies that enabled some blacks to become CPAs. Prior to the 1960s, few white-owned accounting firms employed African Americans. Only through nationwide networks established by the first black CPAs did more African Americans gain the requisite professional experience. The civil rights era saw some progress in integrating the field, and black colleges responded by expanding their programs in business and accounting. In the 1980s, however, the backlash against affirmative action heralded the decline of African American participation in accountancy and paved the way for the astonishing lack of diversity that characterizes the field today.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.1.2003
• Zusatzinfo: 13 illus., 1 table, appends., notes, bibl., index
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Rechnungswesen / Bilanzen
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
• Schlagworte: Accountancy • Accounting • Atlanta • Baton Rouge, LA • Benjamin Crockett • Benjamin King • Bernadine Gines • Bert Mitchell • Bob Hill • Carroll Lee • Certified Public Accountants • Chicago • Civil Rights Act of 1964 • Detroit, MI • G.I. Bill • Greensboro, NC • Henry Wilfong • Historically Black Colleges and Universities • Houston • howard university • Jesse B. Blayton • Joe Cramer • John Cromwell • Larzette Hale • Lincoln Harrison • Los Angeles • Mary T. Washington • Milton Wilson • Nathan Garrett • National Association of Black Accountants • New York • North Carolina Agricultural and Technical University • Quiester Craig • Richard Austin • Rugh Harris • Talmadge Tillman • Texas Southern University • Theodora Rutherford • Theodore Jones • Washington, DC • William Campfield • William Goodall
• ISBN-10: 0-8078-7494-9 / 0807874949
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8078-7494-3 / 9780807874943