Black life in corporate America : swimming in the mainstream / George Davis and Glegg Watson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davis, George, 1939- author.

Watson, Glegg, author.

Contributor:

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American executives.

African American businesspeople.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (stamp) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

12 unnumbered pages, 204 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

[First edition].

Place of Publication:

Garden City, New York : Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1982.

Summary:

Profiles of black corporate executives and managers; the challenges and undercurrents of racial tension.

Contents:

Into the mainstream

Part One. Tokens: the first decade; Troubled waters: the turbulent nineteen sixties; Backlash: the nineteen seventies and nineteen eighties

Part Two. Why bother?; Different strokes; Manchild in the mainstream; Black women, white women and the way it is; Wading, floating, splashing and doggy stroking; Swimming in the mainstream.

Notes:

"Jacket design © copyright 1982 by Lawrence Ratzkin."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-195) and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.

Banks Collection copy has "First edition" statement wanting.

Banks Collection copy has embossed stamp "JB The Library of Joanna Banks".

Other Format:

Online version: Davis, George, 1939- Black life in corporate America.

ISBN:

0385147015 :

9780385147019

0385147023

9780385147026

OCLC:

8051639