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Having done it all, from being Sri Lanka's first woman banker, to reaching the very top in the country's financial sector, as CEO of the Bank of Ceylon and later of Seylan Bank, and becoming one of the most highly respected bankers and business leaders in Sri Lanka, Rohini Nanayakkara has no time for dwelling on gender inequalities and inequities. She didn't fight chauvinism; she just ignored it. And for her it ceased to exist. This book tells how she made it despite coming from an average family. (Bron: covertekst)

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Between 1888 and 1930, African Americans opened more than a hundred banks and thousands of other financial institutions. In Banking on Freedom, Shennette Garrett-Scott explores this rich period of black financial innovation and its transformative impact on U.S. capitalism through the story of the St. Luke Bank in Richmond, Virginia: the first and only bank run by black women.Banking on Freedom offers an unparalleled account of how black women carved out economic, social, and political power in contexts shaped by sexism, white supremacy, and capitalist exploitation. Garrett-Scott chronicles both the bank's success and the challenges this success wrought, including extralegal violence and aggressive oversight from state actors who saw black economic autonomy as a threat to both democratic capitalism and the social order. The teller cage and boardroom became sites of activism and resistance as the leadership of president Maggie Lena Walker and other women board members kept the bank grounded in meeting the needs of working-class black women. The first book to center black women's engagement with the elite sectors of banking, finance, and insurance, Banking on Freedom reveals the ways gender, race, and class shaped the meanings of wealth and risk in U.S. capitalism and society.

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