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• Series Forward Preface Acknowledgements I. Who is an Entrepreneur and What is Entrepreneurship? II. Entrepreneurs Striving for the American Dream III. Are American Entrepreneurs as Diverse as We Think? Understanding Trends and Group Differences IV. Joe the Plumber and the Myth of New Small Businesses as "Job Creators" V. The False-Positive Claim: Recessions Stimulate Entrepreneurship VI. Conclusion Bibliography Glossary/Index.
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The book's central focus explores several "myths" associated with American entrepreneurship: the idea that small business owners are "job creators"; that entrepreneurs are the "backbone" or "engine" of the economy; that entrepreneurship provides a path of economic mobility for immigrants, ethnic and racial minorities, and women; that the Horatio Algiers "rags to riches" story is possible for anyone willing to work hard. Instead, I provide a critical perspective that challenges these myths of American enterprise, arguing that successful entrepreneurship requires access to social and economic capital resources and support that are often distributed along the lines of race, class, and gender in the highly stratified American economy and society.
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• The embedded market : race, class, and gender in American enterprise
• Entrepreneurial dreams in an intersectional context
• Intersectionality, market capacity, and Latino/a enterprise
• By what measure success? : the economic and social value of Latino/a enterprise
• Ethnic and racial identity formation among American Latino/a entrepreneurs
• Rugged individualists and the American dream
• Conclusion : embedded entrepreneurs in brown, black, and white.

For many entrepreneurs, the American Dream remains only partially fulfilled. Unequal outcomes between the middle and lower classes, men and women, and Latino/as, whites, and blacks highlight continuing inequalities and constraints within American society. With a focus on a diverse group of Latino entrepreneurs, this book explores how class, gender, race, and ethnicity all shape Latino entrepreneurs' capacity to succeed in business in the United States. Bringing intersectionality into conversation with theories of ethnic entrepreneurship, Zulema Valdez considers how various factors create, maintain, and transform the social and economic lives of Latino entrepreneurs. While certain group identities may impose unequal, if not discriminatory, starting positions, membership in these same social groups can provide opportunities to mobilize resources together. Valdez reveals how Latino entrepreneurs - as members of oppressed groups on the one hand, yet "rugged individualists" striving for the American Dream on the other - work to recreate their own positions within American society.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

• The embedded market: race, class, and gender in American enterprise
• Entrepreneurial dreams in an intersectional context
• Intersectionality, market capacity, and Latino/a enterprise
• By what measure success? The economic and social value of Latino/a enterprise
• Ethnic and racial identity formation among American entrepreneurs
• Rugged individualists and the American dream
• Conclusion: embedded entrepreneurs in brown, black, and white.

For many entrepreneurs, the American Dream remains only partially fulfilled. Unequal outcomes between the middle and lower classes, men and women, and Latino/as, whites, and blacks highlight continuing inequalities and constraints within American society. With a focus on a diverse group of Latino entrepreneurs, this book explores how class, gender, race, and ethnicity all shape Latino entrepreneurs' capacity to succeed in business in the United States.Bringing intersectionality into conversation with theories of ethnic entrepreneurship, Zulema Valdez considers how various factors create, maintain, and transform the social and economic lives of Latino entrepreneurs. While certain group identities may impose unequal, if not discriminatory, starting positions, membership in these same social groups can provide opportunities to mobilize resources together. Valdez reveals how Latino entrepreneurs-as members of oppressed groups on the one hand, yet "rugged individualists" striving for the American Dream on the other-work to recreate their own positions within American society.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)