History of African American Entrepreneurship and the Connection Between Music & Sports ((3 Credits))

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This course will explore fully the circumstance of African American entreprenerial history in of African America. This course will seek to creat an environment for students to identify the racialized circumstance and arguments for bogus claims of African American failure in business, while providing the context of entrepreneurship, contracting, consulting and branding, specifically in the field of music and sports regarding the historical impact by African Americans. This course will also focus on important aspects in the contemporary political and social economy of African Americans. In exploring this entrepreseurial history, this course will provide the basic framework for understanding the research on innovation and best practices in entrepreneruship moving forward.