ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author focuses on the American race question and the requirements for social progress for blacks were explicated in a substantial outpouring of published work dating largely from the early 1920s through the mid-1930s. His scholarly contributions have fallen into undeserved obscurity. Robert Auerbach, an economist at California Riverside who attributes his own entry into Chicago's graduate program to author's encouragement, describes his as largely noncommittal ideologically. Michael Winston, Howard's current academic vice-president, views author as having undergone a sharp ideological reorientation that would have made him well suited for Chicago's post-World War II economics. He envisioned the development of a multiracial working class movement aimed at a radical transformation of American society. The greatest limitation upon the development of Negro business enterprise arises from the fact that basic industry, essential raw materials, transportation and finance are all controlled by white capital." Negro business affords no real foundation for the growth of a black middle class.
