Cutting Along the Color Line : Black Barbers and Barber Shops in America /

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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...

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Main Author: Mills, Quincy T., 1975- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2013]
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Barbershops.
African Americans > Race identity.
African American business enterprises.
African American barbers.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
Noirs americains > Identite ethnique > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Noirs americains > Identite ethnique > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Entreprises noires americaines > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Entreprises noires americaines > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Coiffeurs noirs americains > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Coiffeurs noirs americains > Histoire > 19e siecle.
African Americans > Race identity > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Race identity > History > 19th century.
African American business enterprises > History > 20th century.
African American business enterprises > History > 19th century.
Barbershops > United States > History > 20th century.
Barbershops > United States > History > 19th century.
African American barbers > History > 20th century.
African American barbers > History > 19th century.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (336 pages).
ISBN:9780812208658

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