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| Genre/Form: | History |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Tiffany M Gill |
| ISBN: | 9780252035050 0252035054 9780252076961 0252076966 |
| OCLC Number: | 361888141 |
| Description: | xi, 192 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| 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. |
| Series Title: | Women in American history. |
| Responsibility: | Tiffany M. Gill. |
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"Gill has made a major contribution to our understanding that the beauty industry has been central to African American women's search for economic sufficiency and the struggle for all African Americans' political rights."--American Studies "A welcome relocation of the discussion of black women's beauty culture."--Women's Review of Books "Gill's book is important... Beauty Shop Politics ... allows a glimpse into black women's relationships with each other, relationships that are simultaneously professional and intimate, in which black women are both producers and consumers, as well as active creators, on both sides, of spaces that are uniquely their own."--The Journal of Southern History "A meticulously researched, well-written, and cogently argued book that contributes to scholarship that complicates historiographical boundaries between business history, labor history, history of consumer culture, women's history, and the history of African American political activism."--The Journal of American History "[Gill] impressively demonstrates how beauticians became an important part of the black economic urban infrastructure... Highly recommended. "--Choice "The scope of the material and interdisciplinary scholarship evident throughout the book makes Beauty Shop Politics a comprehensive addition to the bookshelves of women's studies, African-American studies, and entrepreneurial studies, as well as to history, business, and political-science departments. It is a truly interdisciplinary endeavor."--The Chronicle of Higher Education "A tremendous contribution to African-American history. Beauty Shop Politics demonstrates the central role of black women in the history of black business and shows how black businesswomen challenged the dictates of black male leaders in the worlds of black business and civil rights."--Lynn Hudson, author of The Making of "Mammy Pleasant": A Black Entrepreneur in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco Read more...
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- African American women political activists -- History -- 20th century.
- Beauty culture -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- Beauty culture -- Economic aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- African American beauty operators -- Political activity -- History -- 20th century.
- Businesswomen -- Political activity -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- African American business enterprises -- History -- 20th century.
- African Americans -- Economic conditions -- 20th century.
- African Americans -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century.
- United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
- African American business enterprises.
- African American women political activists.
- African Americans -- Civil rights.
- African Americans -- Economic conditions.
- African Americans -- Politics and government.
- Race relations.
- United States.
- Schwarze Frau
- Kosmetikindustrie
- Politisches Engagement
- USA
- Afro-américain (peuple) -- entrepreneur (économie politique) -- femme -- émancipation -- soins de beauté -- Etats-Unis -- 20e s. -- 21e s. (début)
- activisme -- Afro-américain (peuple) -- engagement politique -- femme -- vie économique -- Etats-Unis -- 20e s. -- 21e s. (début)
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- activisme -- Afro-américain (peuple) -- cosmétique -- engagement politique -- femme -- industrie -- Etats-Unis -- 20e s. -- 21e s. (début)
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