05120nam 2200853 450 991081336690332120211014013659.00-8122-2379-90-8122-0865-X10.9783/9780812208658(CKB)3710000000020872(EBL)3442271(SSID)ssj0001036646(PQKBManifestationID)11574613(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001036646(PQKBWorkID)11042627(PQKB)11662945(OCoLC)867741484(MdBmJHUP)muse27242(DE-B1597)449771(OCoLC)922638774(DE-B1597)9780812208658(Au-PeEL)EBL3442271(CaPaEBR)ebr10780875(CaONFJC)MIL682633(OCoLC)863789206(MiAaPQ)EBC3442271(EXLCZ)99371000000002087220130319h20132013 uy 0engurunu---uuuuutxtccrCutting along the color line Black barbers and barber shops in America /Quincy T. MillsFirst edition.Philadelphia :University of Pennsylvania Press,[2013]©20131 online resource (336 pages)Description based upon print version of record.1-322-51351-1 0-8122-4541-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Preface --Introduction --Chapter 1. Barbering for Freedom in Antebellum America --Chapter 2. The Politics of “Color-Line” Barber Shops After the Civil War --Chapter 3. Race, Regulation, and the Modern Barber Shop --Chapter 4. Rise of the New Negro Barber --Chapter 5. Bigger Than a Haircut Desegregation and the Barber Shop --Chapter 6. The Culture and Economy of Modern Black Barber Shops --Epilogue --Notes --Index --AcknowledgmentsToday, 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 Line chronicles 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.African AmericansRace identityHistory20th centuryAfrican AmericansRace identityHistory19th centuryAfrican American business enterprisesHistory20th centuryAfrican American business enterprisesHistory19th centuryBarbershopsUnited StatesHistory20th centuryBarbershopsUnited StatesHistory19th centuryAfrican American barbersHistory20th centuryAfrican American barbersHistory19th centuryAfrican Studies.African-American Studies.American History.American Studies.African AmericansRace identityHistoryAfrican AmericansRace identityHistoryAfrican American business enterprisesHistoryAfrican American business enterprisesHistoryBarbershopsHistoryBarbershopsHistoryAfrican American barbersHistoryAfrican American barbersHistory646.7/2408996073Mills Quincy T.1975-1658977MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910813366903321Cutting along the color line4013348UNINA