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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822921603321

Autore

Blackwelder Julia Kirk <1943->

Titolo

Styling Jim Crow : African American beauty training during segregation / / Julia Kirk Blackwelder

Pubbl/distr/stampa

College Station, : Texas A & M University Press, c2003

ISBN

1-60344-730-X

1-58544-885-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 183 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

646.7/2/08996073

Soggetti

Hairdressing of African Americans - History - 20th century

Beauty culture - United States - History - 20th century

African American women - History - 20th century

Beauty shops - United States - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-176) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The legacy of beauty culture Traveling : the Madam C.J. Walker Company, sales agents, and Marjorie Stewart Joyner, 1916-86 Southbound : Jim Crow, the J.H. Jemison family, and the Franklin School of Beauty Beating Jim Crow : J.H. Jemison and the Franklin School after 1940