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Cutting along the color line : Black barbers and barber shops in America /
Black-owned barber shops play a central role in African American public life. The intimacy of commercial grooming encourages both confidentiality and camaraderie, which make the barber shop an important gathering place for African American men to talk freely. But for many years preceding and even af...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2013]
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Black-owned barber shops play a central role in African American public life. The intimacy of commercial grooming encourages both confidentiality and camaraderie, which make the barber shop an important gathering place for African American men to talk freely. But for many years preceding and even after the Civil War, Black barbers endured a measure of social stigma for perpetuating inequality: though the profession offered economic mobility to Black entrepreneurs, Black barbers were obliged by custom to serve an exclusively white clientele. The author traces the lineage from these nineteenth-century barbers to the bustling enterprises of today, demonstrating that the livelihood offered by the service economy was crucial to the development of a Black commercial sphere and the barber shop as a democratic social space. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (319 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 081220865X 9780812208658 0812223799 9780812223798 |