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A White-Collar Profession: African American Certified Public Accountants since 1921
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Paperback. This publication provides a history of black exclusion from accounting and the pioneering efforts of the first black CPAs. It chronicles the determination of African Americans who sought to enter the field and gives a broad understanding of links between race, education and economics. Num Pages: 256 pages, 11 illustrations, 1 table, 2 figures, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL3; KFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 336.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9780807853771
SKU
V9780807853771
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99-15
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THERESA A. HAMMOND is associate professor of accounting and Ernst and Young Research Fellow in Diversity Studies at the Wallace E. Carroll School of Management at Boston College.
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