LEADER 05011nam 2200817 450 001 9910464948603321 005 20211014013659.0 010 $a0-8122-2379-9 010 $a0-8122-0865-X 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812208658 035 $a(CKB)3710000000020872 035 $a(EBL)3442271 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001036646 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11574613 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001036646 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11042627 035 $a(PQKB)11662945 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442271 035 $a(OCoLC)867741484 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse27242 035 $a(DE-B1597)449771 035 $a(OCoLC)922638774 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812208658 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442271 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10780875 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL682633 035 $a(OCoLC)863789206 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000020872 100 $a20130319h20132013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurunu---uuuuu 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCutting along the color line $eBlack barbers and barber shops in America /$fQuincy T. Mills 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aPhiladelphia :$cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,$d[2013] 210 4$dİ2013 215 $a1 online resource (336 pages) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a1-322-51351-1 311 0 $a0-8122-4541-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tIntroduction --$tChapter 1. Barbering for Freedom in Antebellum America --$tChapter 2. The Politics of ?Color-Line? Barber Shops After the Civil War --$tChapter 3. Race, Regulation, and the Modern Barber Shop --$tChapter 4. Rise of the New Negro Barber --$tChapter 5. Bigger Than a Haircut Desegregation and the Barber Shop --$tChapter 6. The Culture and Economy of Modern Black Barber Shops --$tEpilogue --$tNotes --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aToday, 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. 606 $aAfrican Americans$xRace identity$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aAfrican Americans$xRace identity$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aAfrican American business enterprises$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aAfrican American business enterprises$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aBarbershops$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aBarbershops$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aAfrican American barbers$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aAfrican American barbers$xHistory$y19th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xRace identity$xHistory 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xRace identity$xHistory 615 0$aAfrican American business enterprises$xHistory 615 0$aAfrican American business enterprises$xHistory 615 0$aBarbershops$xHistory 615 0$aBarbershops$xHistory 615 0$aAfrican American barbers$xHistory 615 0$aAfrican American barbers$xHistory 676 $a646.7/2408996073 700 $aMills$b Quincy T.$f1975-$01044402 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910464948603321 996 $aCutting along the color line$92470051 997 $aUNINA