This work brings together for the first time the ideas, philosophies and interpretations of North America's leading African American economists, demonstrating that racial inequality has had an immense impact on African Americans' daily lives.

1 EDITOR'S NOTES 2 PREAMBLE: BLACKS IN THE AMERICAN ECONOMY: SUMMARY OF SELECTED RESEARCH Part I Race, gender, and economics 3 THE AFRICAN AMERICAN AS SCHOLAR, ECONOMIST AND ACTIVIST 4 THE INTERSECTIONALITY OF OPPRESSION AND ITS NEGATION OF COLOR BLIND REMEDIES: RACE CONSCIOUSNESS, RACE, CLASS, AND GENDER 5 BLACK WOMEN IN THE HISTORY OF AFRICAN AMERICAN ECONOMIC THOUGHT: A CRITICAL ESSAY 6 MISSED OPPORTUNITY: SADIE TANNER MOSSELL ALEXANDER AND THE ECONOMICS PROFESSION 7 TILTING AGAINST THE WIND: REFLECTIONS ON THE LIFE AND WORK OF DR PHYLLIS ANN WALLACE 8 PROLEGOMENON INTO RACE AND ECONOMICS Part II The economic philosophers and their vision 9 BOOKER T. WASHINGTON AND THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF BLACK EDUCATION IN THE UNITED STATES, 1880-1915 10 WHY BOOKER T. WASHINGTON WAS RIGHT: A RECONSIDERATION OF THE ECONOMICS OF RACE 11 BOOKER T. WASHINGTON: MYTH MAKER 12 GEORGE EDMUND HAYNES AND THE OFFICE OF NEGRO ECONOMICS 13 SOUNDINGS AND SILENCES ON RACE AND SOCIAL CHANGE: ABRAM HARRIS, Jr. IN THE GREAT DEPRESSION 14 FORMULATING THE NEGATION: ABRAM HARRIS, Jr. AS CRITIC 15 THE POLITICAL ECONOMIC THOUGHT OF OLIVER C. COX 16 FROM THE NEW DEAL TO THE GREAT SOCIETY: THE ECONOMIC ACTIVISM OF ROBERT C. WEAVER