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Beauty Shop Politics: African American Women's Activism in the Beauty Industry (Women in American History)
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 friv...more
Paperback, 208 pages
Published
March 3rd 2010
by University of Illinois Press
(first published January 29th 2010)
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Dr. Tiffany Gill earned her Ph.D. from Rutgers University in 2003. Her recently published €œBeauty Shop Politics: African American Women's Activism in the Beauty Industry (University of Illinois, 2010) explores African American beauticians and beauty salons and their role in twentieth-century social, political, and economic movements and is an analysis of the ways African American beauty entrepreneurs built and sustained a vibrant culture of activism and institution building.
Dr. Tiffany Gill earned her Ph.D. from Rutgers University in 2003. Her recently published €œBeauty Shop Politics: African American Women's Activism in the Beauty Industry (University of Illinois, 2010) explores African American beauticians and beauty salons and their role in twentieth-century social, political, and economic movements and is an analysis of the ways African American beauty entrepreneurs built and sustained a vibrant culture of activism and institution building.
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