Cutting along the color line : Black barbers and barber shops in America / Quincy T. Mills.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2013.Edition: 1st edDescription: xii, 319 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780812245417 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 0812245415 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 646.7/2408996073 23
LOC classification:
  • HD8039.B32 U647 2013
Contents:
Barbering in slavery and freedom. Barbering for freedom in antebellum America -- The politicts of "color-line" barber shops after the civil war -- Race, regulation, and the modern barber shop -- Black barbers, patrons, and public spaces. Rise of the new Negro barber -- Bigger than a haircut: desgregation and the barber shop -- The culture and economy of modern Black barber shops.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Barbering in slavery and freedom. Barbering for freedom in antebellum America -- The politicts of "color-line" barber shops after the civil war -- Race, regulation, and the modern barber shop -- Black barbers, patrons, and public spaces. Rise of the new Negro barber -- Bigger than a haircut: desgregation and the barber shop -- The culture and economy of modern Black barber shops.

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