Beauty shop politics : African American women's activism in the beauty industry / Tiffany M. Gill.
2010
E185.86 .G494 2010 (Mapit)
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Beauty shop politics : African American women's activism in the beauty industry / Tiffany M. Gill.
Author
Gill, Tiffany M.
ISBN
9780252076961 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0252076966 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780252035050 (alk. paper)
0252035054 (alk. paper)
0252076966 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780252035050 (alk. paper)
0252035054 (alk. paper)
Publication Details
Urbana ; Chicago : University of Illinois Press, c2010.
Language
English
Description
xi, 192 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Call Number
E185.86 .G494 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification
646.7/2092
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series
Women in American history.
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Table of Contents
Introduction: Finding politics in unexpected places : the matrix of beauty, business, and politics
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 new Negro woman
"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 world
"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.
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 new Negro woman
"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 world
"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.