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Cutting Along the Color Line: Black Barbers and Barber Shops in America

2013 University of Pennsylvania Press ;ISBN: 0812245415 ;ISBN: 9780812245417 ;ISBN: 081220865X ;ISBN: 9780812208658 ;EISBN: 081220865X ;EISBN: 9780812208658 ;DOI: 10.9783/9780812208658 ;OCLC: 863789206 ;LCCallNum: HD8039.B32U647 2013

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Title:
Cutting Along the Color Line: Black Barbers and Barber Shops in America
Author: Mills, Quincy T
Subjects: 19th century ; 20th Century ; African American barbers ; African American barbers-History-19th century ; African American barbers-History-20th century ; African American business enterprises ; African American business enterprises-History-19th century ; African American business enterprises-History-20th century ; African American Studies ; African Americans ; African Americans-Race identity-History-19th century ; African Americans-Race identity-History-20th century ; Barbershops ; Barbershops-United States-History-19th century ; Barbershops-United States-History-20th century ; Ethnic Studies ; HISTORY ; Race identity ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; United States
Description: Today, black-owned barber shops play a central role in African American public life. The intimacy of commercial grooming encourages both confidentiality and camaraderie, which make the barber shop an important gathering place for African American men to talk freely. But for many years preceding and even after the Civil War, black barbers endured a measure of social stigma for perpetuating inequality: though the profession offered economic mobility to black entrepreneurs, black barbers were obliged by custom to serve an exclusively white clientele. Quincy T. Mills traces the lineage from these nineteenth-century barbers to the bustling enterprises of today, demonstrating that the livelihood offered by the service economy was crucial to the development of a black commercial sphere and the barber shop as a democratic social space.Cutting Along the Color Linechronicles the cultural history of black barber shops as businesses and civic institutions. Through several generations of barbers, Mills examines the transition from slavery to freedom in the nineteenth century, the early twentieth-century expansion of black consumerism, and the challenges of professionalization, licensing laws, and competition from white barbers. He finds that the profession played a significant though complicated role in twentieth-century racial politics: while the services of shaving and grooming were instrumental in the creation of socially acceptable black masculinity, barbering permitted the financial independence to maintain public spaces that fostered civil rights politics. This sweeping, engaging history of an iconic cultural establishment shows that black entrepreneurship was intimately linked to the struggle for equality.
Publisher: Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc
Creation Date: 2013
Format: 336
Language: English
Identifier: ISBN: 0812245415
ISBN: 9780812245417
ISBN: 081220865X
ISBN: 9780812208658
EISBN: 081220865X
EISBN: 9780812208658
DOI: 10.9783/9780812208658
OCLC: 863789206
LCCallNum: HD8039.B32U647 2013
Source: Ebook Central Academic Complete

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Cutting Along the Color Line: Black Barbers and Barber Shops in America

2013 University of Pennsylvania Press ;ISBN: 0812245415 ;ISBN: 9780812245417 ;ISBN: 081220865X ;ISBN: 9780812208658 ;EISBN: 081220865X ;EISBN: 9780812208658 ;DOI: 10.9783/9780812208658 ;OCLC: 863789206 ;LCCallNum: HD8039.B32U647 2013

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