Beauty shop politics
Subtitle: African American women's activism in the beauty industry
By: Tiffany M. Gill.
Series: Women in American history
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780252035050; 9780252076961
Subjects: African American women political activists -- History -- 20th century; Beauty culture -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Beauty culture -- Economic aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century; African American beauty operators -- Political activity -- History -- 20th century; Businesswomen -- United States -- Political activity -- 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 -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century; United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Finding politics in unexpected places : the matrix of beauty, business, and politics; title: Beauty pioneers : racial uplift and gender in the creation of a Black business community; title: "Link up with us" : Black beauty culture, racial politics, and the new Negro woman; title: "This industry is not typical, but exceptional" : redefining entrepreneurship and activism in the 1930s and 1940s; title: "We could turn the whole world over" : the international presence of African American beauticians in the postwar world; title: "Black beauticians were very important" : Southern beauty activists and the modern Black freedom struggle; title: "Among the things that used to be" : beauticians, health activism, and the politics of dignity in the post-civil rights era.