Beauty shop politics : African American women's activism in the beauty industry / Tiffany M. Gill.
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Language: | English |
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
[2010], ©2010.
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Series: | Women in American history.
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Physical Description: | xi, 192 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Introduction: Finding politics in unexpected places : the matrix of beauty, business, and activism
- Beauty pioneers : racial uplift and gender in the creation of a Black business community
- "Link up with us" : Black beauty culture, racial politics, and the complexities of modern Black womanhood
- "This industry is not typical, but exceptional" : redefining entrepreneurship and activism in the 1930s and 1940s
- "We could turn the whole world over" : the international presence of African American beauticians in the postwar era
- "Black beauticians were very important" : Southern beauty activists and the modern Black freedom struggle
- "Among the things that used to be" : beauticians, health activism, and the politics of dignity in the post-civil rights era.