More than money : defining Black business success in New Orleans

In academic literature and professional support, small business success for Black entrepreneurs across the U.S. has been defined through narrow and pessimistic lenses. Expectations of high economic yield and employment have been the main measures of their success or failure. However, in New Orleans, Black entrepreneurship has yielded spirits of social impact and self-determination. This thesis hypothesizes that Black business success requires more than economic viability to be considered valuable by the entrepreneurs themselves, aiming to contribute to the social and cultural atmosphere. In order to understand how Black business success has been interpreted, this thesis places Black businesses of New Orleans in the larger context of historic literature about Black entrepreneurship, as well as writings about sense of culture and home. With Black small businesses in New Orleans.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Urban Studies and Planning

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2019

Author dc:creator

• Jordan, Dasjon Semaj.

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Karilyn Crocket.

• Urban Studies and Planning.

Statement dc:rights

• MIT theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed, downloaded, or printed from this source but further reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission.

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/123962

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/123962