Product Description
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PowerNomics: The National Plan to Empower Black America is a
five-year plan to make Black America a prosperous and empowered
race that is self-sufficient and competitive as a group by the
year 2005. In this book, Dr. Anderson obliterates the myths and
illusions of black progress and brings together data and
information from many different sources to construct a framework
for solutions to the dilemma of Black America. In PowerNomics:
The National Plan, Dr. Anderson proposes new principles,
strategies and concepts that show blacks a new way to see, think,
and behave in race matters. The new mind set prepares blacks to
take strategic steps to create a new reality for their race. It
offers guidance to others who support blacks self-sufficiency. In
this book, Dr. Anderson offers inful analysis and action
steps blacks can take to redesign core areas of life - Education,
Economics, Politics and Religion - to better benefit their race.
The action steps in each area require new empowerment tools that
Dr. Anderson presents - a new group vision and a new culture of
empowerment - tools designed to counter, if not break many of the
racial monopolies in society. Vertical integration and
Industrializing black communities are other major concepts and
strategies that he presents in the book. He places a great deal
of importance on building industries in black communities that
are constructed upon group competitive advantages. A the same
time he announced the release of PowerNomics: The National Plan,
he also announced that he has established several models of the
strategies he proposes in the book. PowerNomics: The Plan, is
infused with Dr. Anderson's trademark creative thinking and
answers questions such as: - Why are blacks the only group that
equates success with working in a White corporation, government
or the entertainment industry? - How did power and wealth -
businesses, resources, privileges, income and control of all
levels of government get so disproportionately distributed into
the hands of White society?
- Industrialization brings many economic benefits to the
geographic locations where it occurs. Why has Black America never
been industrialized and how can it be done? - Why do visible
blacks and black leaders avoid blackness, identifying the focus
of their work instead for people of color, minorities, women,
gays , the poor, Hispanics, and other immigrant groups? - What
enables a constant stream of immigrant groups to politically,
economically and socially dominate blacks? - In politics, how is
it that blacks can be monolithic and loyal political supporters
yet their group receives no quid pro quo benefits? - In his first
book, Black Labor, White Wealth, Dr. Anderson examined history
and showed how racism has locked and boxed blacks into a near
permanent underclass. Picking up where Black Labor, White Wealth
left off, PowerNomics: The National Plan is the missing link
between the historical analysis of problems facing blacks and the
strategies needed to correct those problems. Dr. Anderson's books
are a phenomenon in the publishing industry. His work is
distinguished because he has turned books that are serious,
non-fiction, and heavy on black history, into best-sellers.
PowerNomics: The National Plan continues that pattern. It is an
astounding work.
About the Author
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Dr. Claud Anderson is a noted black author who has successfully
implemented social and economic change throughout his career. His
unique background of experience is reflected in PowerNomics: The
National Plan. To implement the strategy of industrializing Black
communities, he has established a vertically integrated seafood
industry that is currently operating and will expand into urban
areas across the nation. His company is one of the few
black-owned companies to make stock available to the general
public through an initial public offering. In addition to his
most recent seafood project, he owns a vertically integrated
publishing company and was one of the first blacks to own a radio
station in Florida.
Dr. Anderson headed two economic development corporations in
Florida and was appointed by President Jimmy Carter as Assistant
Secretary of the U.S. Department of Commerce and the head of the
Coastal Plains Regional Commission. In that position he worked
with governors in the southeast states to develop and fund
economic development projects, including seafood. He was
Coordinator of Education for the State of Florida under Governor
Reubin Askew during integration and has held a number of
high-level positions in national and state politics. He is also
President of The Harvest Institute, a black research, education
and advocacy organization. He is imminently qualified to offer a
plan to empower Black America.