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A White-Collar Profession: African American Certified Public Accountants since 1921. By Theresa A. Hammond. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2002. Pp. xiv, 216. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-8078-5377-1; cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-8078-2708-8.)
Theresa A. Hammond, an accounting academic at Boston College, has written several articles since 1994 on the struggle of African Americans to enter the accounting profession in the United States. She has also been an activist in the movement. In this exceptionally well crafted book, she educates readers on the wide range of barriers that have blocked the access of African Americans to securing university education in accounting, becoming certified public accountants (CPAs), and gaining employment in the public accounting profession. It is a fascinating story that is richly informed by interviews she conducted between 1989 and 2001 with some fifty of the principals and closer observers,...