TODAY! Beauty Shop Politics: African-American Entrepreneurs and Activism in the 20th Century

Join us at the German Historical Institute for

Beauty Shop Politics

 African-American Entrepreneurs

and Activism in the 20th Century

 Thursday, October 28, 2010

 6:00-8:00 PM

 German Historical Institute

 1607 New Hampshire Avenue, NW

 Washington, DC

 This fascinating program is part of the German Historical Institute's Fall Lecture Series: "The Business of Beauty: The Profitable Body." Winner of the 2010 Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Book Award, Beauty Shop Politics is a bold reassessment of black beauty salons as vital sites for social change. Looking through the lens of black business history, Beauty Shop Politics shows how black beauticians in the Jim Crow era parlayed their economic independence and access to a public community space into platforms for activism. Author, Professor Tiffany M. Gill (University of Texas - Austin) argues that the beauty industry played a crucial role in the creation of the modern black female identity and that the seemingly frivolous space of a beauty salon actually has stimulated social, political, and economic change.

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