"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...

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Published in:	Journal of Women's History Vol. 20; no. 3; pp. 60 - 84
Main Author:	Walker, Susannah
Format:	Article
Published:	Johns Hopkins University Press Fall2008
Subjects:	Cosmetology Race discrimination Sex discrimination Social conditions of African American women American women African American cosmetologists Employment discrimination Sex discrimination in employment Sex discrimination against women
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