Author: Boise Cascade Center for Community DevelopmentPublisher:
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Category : Beauty shops
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Beauty Shop Politics
Author: Tiffany M. GillPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252095545
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
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. From the founding of the National Negro Business League in 1900 and onward, African Americans have embraced the entrepreneurial spirit by starting their own businesses, but black women's forays into the business world were overshadowed by those of black men. 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. Enhanced by lucid portrayals of black beauticians and drawing on archival research and oral histories, Beauty Shop Politics conveys the everyday operations and rich culture of black beauty salons as well as their role in building community.
Beauty Shops
Author: Boise Cascade Center for Community DevelopmentPublisher:
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Category : Beauty shops
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Black Behind the Ears
Author: Ginetta E. B. CandelarioPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822340379
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
An innovative historical and ethnographic examination of Dominican identity formation in the Dominican Republic and the United States.
Employment Conditions in Beauty Shops
Author: Ethel EricksonPublisher:
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Category : Afro-American women
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Urban Business Profile: Beauty Shops
Author: United States. Economic Development AdministrationPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Pageants, Parlors, and Pretty Women
Author: Blain RobertsPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469614219
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
From the South's pageant queens to the importance of beauty parlors to African American communities, it is easy to see the ways beauty is enmeshed in southern culture. But as Blain Roberts shows in this incisive work, the pursuit of beauty in the South was linked to the tumultuous racial divides of the region, where the Jim Crow-era cosmetics industry came of age selling the idea of makeup that emphasized whiteness, and where, in the 1950s and 1960s, black-owned beauty shops served as crucial sites of resistance for civil rights activists. In these times of strained relations in the South, beauty became a signifier of power and affluence while it reinforced racial strife. Roberts examines a range of beauty products, practices, and rituals--cosmetics, hairdressing, clothing, and beauty contests--in settings that range from tobacco farms of the Great Depression to 1950s and 1960s college campuses. In so doing, she uncovers the role of female beauty in the economic and cultural modernization of the South. By showing how battles over beauty came to a head during the civil rights movement, Roberts sheds new light on the tactics southerners used to resist and achieve desegregation.
BEAUTY SHOP
Author: The Retail Druggist
Author: The Dollar Decade
Author: Gary D. BestPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313057265
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
This book examines the underlying causes of the tumult of the 1920s in America that has since captivated writers, readers, moviegoers, and television viewers. During the 1920s, Americans were aware of the momentous changes taking place in their lives. It was an introspective decade. Magazines and newspaper articles, books and anthologies explored the causes, nature, and implications of those changes. The impact of radio, and to a lesser extent motion pictures, rivaled the effects that the invention of printing had had on human society hundreds of years earlier. Add to these developments the effects of World War I and the popularization of Freud and Darwin, and the result was an America cast adrift on a sea of normlessness, treading water between two worlds: one of stability and tradition before the war, and one as yet dimly perceived in the mists of the future. While Freud challenged notions of traditional behavior, Darwin challenged traditional religious beliefs. The arrival of the affordable automobile transformed human mobility on a scale not seen since the domestication of the horse and the invention of the wheel thousands of years before. But those previous changes had not ushered in so many cataclysmic changes in so short a time. The author maintains that only in this context can much of the behavior of the time be understood, from the popularity of the Ku Klux Klan to the excesses of the flappers and the jazz age.
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