Beauty Shop Politics: African American Women's Activism in the Beauty Industry (Women in American History) (Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History)

by TiffanyM.Gill (Author)

• New

  Illustrated
  2010

  $26.09

  Shows how black beauticians in the Jim Crow era parlayed their economic independence and access to a public community space into platforms for activism. This book argues that the beauty industry played a crucial role in the creation of the modern black female identity.