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African American women's activism in the beauty industry

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African American women's activism in the beauty industry

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University of Illinois Press
Language
English
Pages
192

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Subjects
Politics and government, Race relations, African American women political activists, African American beauty operators, Civil rights, African American business enterprises, Economic conditions, Beauty culture, African Americans, Businesswomen, Political activity, History, African americans, economic conditions, African americans, politics and government, African americans, civil rights, United states, race relations, Beauty operators, Women, political activity
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United States
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20th century

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Beauty Shop Politics: African American Women's Activism in the Beauty Industry
2010, University of Illinois Press
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Table of 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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Urbana, Chicago
Series
Women in American history

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646.7/2092
Library of Congress
E185.86 .G494 2010, E185.86.G494 2010

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xi, 192 p. :
Number of pages
192

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OL24433769M
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9780252035050, 9780252076961
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2009020148
OCLC/WorldCat
361888141

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