Beauty shop politics : African American women's activism in the beauty industry /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Gill, Tiffany M.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2010]
Series:	Women in American history.
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 > Political activity > United States > 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.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Finding politics in unexpected places : the matrix of beauty, business, and activism
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 complexities of modern Black womanhood
"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 era
"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.