xi, 192 s. :

Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction: Finding politics in unexpected places : the matrix of beauty, business, and politics. 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 new Negro woman. "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 world. "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

Introduction: Finding politics in unexpected places : the matrix of beauty, business, and politics -- 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 new Negro woman -- "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 world -- "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

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