“I’ve always been someone who has curiosity for people and society and culture,” says Dr. Rachel Laryea Businessman.

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Laryea, brought up by a free mother who emigrated to the US from Ghana, began her career in Goldman Sachs and holds a dual doctorate in African American studies and socio -cultural anthropology from Yale University -that helped form her lifestyle Brand, current research in JPMorgan Chase and her new books. Black Capitalists: Plan for what is possible.

“It was certainly a culture shock,” Laryea says that her time is working in the company service and the Goldman Sachs real estate division, “and I had several cultural shocks in my short life.Black capitalists). “

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In his academic work, Laryea examines the black radical tradition and how the history and theory of critical race around black experience intersect with capitalism. Such a scholarship often suggests that blacks may have a relationship with capitalism that is not exploitative because of the history of American capitalism, given that the blacks “were and often are still laboratory of capitalism, but barely run his recipients,” he says.

In Goldman Sachs, however, Laryea saw that many people have “finished, interesting, contact relationships” with the “belly of the bestie” – Wall Street. This experience made her re -evaluate what she had learned and consider how to create space for blacks in the US economic system to explore how they could benefit from capitalism itself.

“Anyone can be invested and practicing black capitalism.”

Lary’s work on Black capitalists She began when she examined and wrote her dissertation, which focused on black capitalists in the transatlantic industry. When she continued the project, they face the question of how people could use capitalism tools to increase their communities.

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Laryea’s book depends on two basic terms: “black capitalist” and “black capitalism”.

“I define a black capitalist as an individual who identifies himself as a black person and strategically lies in the economy to benefit from it to create social good,” Laryea explains.

On the other hand, “black capitalism” is an agnostic race, notes Larya. “Anyone can be invested and practiced by black capitalism,” he says, “Because it can be individual or collective that makes it think about moving in elConomics to create social good.”

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According to Larye, this municipal thinking has the potential to “tear” the current ideas of capitalism – about what it can be and how we can participate in it.

“For many people, the idea of ​​a black capitalist is an oxymoronic or even an identity crisis.”

Laryea admitted that some people will have a “visceral reaction negatively” to the name of their book: Black capitalists.

“For many people, the idea of ​​a black capitalist is an oxymoronic or even an identity crisis because this question becomes, How could I accept an economic system that never allowed me to benefit from it, and in fact was the exploiter for me and my community?“Laryea explains.

It is a tense question that is supported by the history of legalized slavery in the US, a generation of economic trauma transmitted to the present and an ever -expanding gap in racial wealth, says Larya.

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Laryea also remarks between a black capitalist and a black man who participates in capitalism. In the later case, someone who participates in capitalism to “reproduce capitalism”.

“It is clear to me that I will have to use my own story.”

A couple of stories Black capitalists Unpacking are those that the Black Goldman Sachs employee and IFA, who are described as “spy” access, acquire excess resources and return with his black communities in Brooklyn in New York, and Nigerian business loan that builds and builds and builds back and back.

“(Esus is) this construct on both sides,” Abbey said Businessman “It is a tenant’s victory because they can create their credit score or build a credit score score and not go through what we have gone with the mother when we went into this country, and during a heavy time (also tenants) they gain access to zero inf.

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Laryea also made a “difficult choice” to tell its own story in the book. When he talks with the book, many women she spoke to was concerned that they were included and identifiable despite anonymity.

“It was clear to me that I wouldn’t eat my own story in a way to stand up so that the woman I was talking to,” Laryea explains. “At the end of the day, so many of our stories and experiences was similar to how we navigate corporate America – so many negative experiences we have, declining returns that many of us experience in these spaces, but have never gained their benefits.”

Before publishing Black capitalists There are 10, Laryea hopes that the book is moving the reader to a unified event.

“What is so important, especially at the time we live, (is) to lock the weapons and get to the same page about how we will live at the moment and go through this moment,” Laryea says. “We know that capitalism will not be dismantled tomorrow, so from a pragmatic point of view it is a question How can we use the tools of this system to create a social good (a) fairer system, in constant efforts to get us to something that is a little more fairer? “