Beauty Shop Politics: African American Women's Activism in the Beauty Industry
Looking through the lens of black business history, "Beauty Shop Politics" shows how black beauticians in the Jim Crow era parlayed their economic independence and access to a public community space into platforms for activism. Tiffany M. Gill argues that the beauty industry played a crucial role in the creation of the modern black female identity and that the seemingly frivolous space of a beauty salon a
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