Upon observing the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, African Americans, who are predominantly the descendants of enslaved Africans who provided hundreds of years of free labor that immensely contributed to the economic development and prosperity of America, ironically possess the highest unemployment rates compared to all racial demographics in America, which has persisted since the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics specifically began measuring the unemployment rates for African Americans in 1972. Consequently, African Americans remain at the bottom of the American economic caste system and must endure a host of economically based inequities; thus, this book provides a journey of discovering some of the various reasons that the unemployment rates among African Americans remain higher than any other racial demographic in America through the lenses of the critical race theory, institutional racism, African Americans' diminishing entrepreneurial efforts, and their psychological despair.
The African American Mass Unemployment Crisis: The Quest for America's Exceptional People to Attain Comprehensive Equity Through Psychological Rehabilitation, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Liberation also includes the results of Dr. Smith's 2021 empirical study regarding the African American mass unemployment crisis, which is presented along with various solutions to counteract this American crisis by providing African Americans with an entrepreneurial and psychological roadmap of how to achieve true freedom through economic liberation.
