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Author:

Mills, Quincy T., 1975-

Title:

Cutting along the color line : Black barbers and barber shops in America / Quincy T. Mills.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

University of Pennsylvania Press,

Copyright Date:

c2013

Description:

xii, 319 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

African American barbers--History--19th century.
African American barbers--History--20th century.
Barbershops--United States--History--19th century.
Barbershops--United States--History--20th century.
African American business enterprises--History--19th century.
African American business enterprises--History--20th century.
African Americans--History--History--19th century.
African Americans--History--History--20th century.
African American barbers.
African American business enterprises.
African Americans--Race identity.
Barbershops.
United States.
1800 - 1999

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Barbering in slavery and freedom. Barbering for freedom in antebellum America -- The politicts of "color-line" barber shops after the civil war -- Race, regulation, and the modern barber shop -- Black barbers, patrons, and public spaces. Rise of the new Negro barber -- Bigger than a haircut: desgregation and the barber shop -- The culture and economy of modern Black barber shops.

ISBN:

0812245415 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780812245417 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2013011244

Locations:

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)

UXAX826 -- St. Ambrose University Library (Davenport)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)