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Author:

Gill, Tiffany M.

Title:

Beauty shop politics : African American women's activism in the beauty industry / Tiffany M. Gill.

Publisher:

University of Illinois Press,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

xi, 192 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

African American women political activists--History--20th century.
Beauty culture--History--United States--History--20th century.
Beauty culture--History--United States--History--20th century.
African American beauty operators--History--History--20th century.
Businesswomen--History--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--History--History--20th century.
United States--History--History--20th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Series:

Women in American history

ISBN:

0252076966 (paper : alk. paper)
9780252076961 (paper : alk. paper)
0252035054 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780252035050 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)361888141

LCCN:

2009020148

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)