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Beauty Shop Politics:

African American Women's Activism in the Beauty Industry
  • ISBN-13: 9780252076961
  • Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
    Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
  • By Tiffany M. Gill
  • Price: AUD $58.99
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 14/10/2010
  • Format: Paperback 208 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: History of the Americas [HBJK]
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Looking through the lens of black business history, Beauty Shop Politics shows how black beauticians in the Jim Crow era parlayed their economic independence and access to a public community space into platforms for activism. Tiffany M. Gill argues that the beauty industry played a crucial role in the creation of the modern black female identity and that the seemingly frivolous space of a beauty salon actually has stimulated social, political, and economic change. With a broad scope that encompasses the role of gossip in salons, ethnic beauty products, and the social meanings of African American hair textures, Gill shows how African American beauty entrepreneurs built and sustained a vibrant culture of activism in beauty salons and schools.
''In Beauty Shop Politics, historian Tiffany M. Gill takes readers from the turn-of-the-century golden age of black business in America through the height of the black freedom struggle to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Along the way, she focuses on the experiences of black beauticians and connects economic autonomy, entrepreneurship, and political activism within the black beauty industry... Gill's analysis of the space of the beauty salon represents an important contribution to the historiography of the African American freedom struggle.'' Joey Fink, H-Net Reviews ''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 business and civil rights.'' Lynn Hudson, author of The Making of ''Mammy Pleasant'': A Black Entrepreneur in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco
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