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

by Quincy T. Mills

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812223799
• ISBN13: 9780812223798
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.6" x 8.7"