"INDEPENDENT LIVINGS" OR "No BED OF ROSES"?: How Race and Class Shaped Beauty Culture as an Occupation for African American Women from the 1920s to the 1960s.
Because of race and gender discrimination that limited employment options in the middle decades of the twentieth century, beauty culture attracted African American women across class lines. Middle-class, salon-owning beauticians sought professional status for beauty culture, while working-class beau...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Women's History Vol. 20; no. 3; pp. 60 - 84 |
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Johns Hopkins University Press
Fall2008
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