Foreword: Race in organizations: often cloaked but always present / by Ella L. J. Edmondson Bell and Stella M. Nkomo -- Why a volume on race, work, and leadership? / by Laura Morgan Roberts, Anthony J. Mayo, and Serenity Lee -- Section I. History and critical questions in black business...

Section 1. Multiple identities and resources -- Section 2. Authenticity -- Section 3. Resilience -- Section 4. Relating across differences -- Section 5. Inclusive and equitable systems -- Section 6. Innovative thinking.

On July 17, 2009, Zappos.com, a privately-held online retailer of shoes, clothing, and other soft line retail categories, learned that Amazon.com, a $19 billion multinational online retailer, had won its Board of Directors' approval to offer to merge the two companies. Amazon had been courting...