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Doing Business With Beauty

Black Women, Hair Salons, and the Racial Enclave Economy

Häftad, Engelska, 2009

AvAdia Harvey Wingfield

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Black women comprise one of the fastest-growing groups of business owners in the United States. In Doing Business with Beauty, sociologist Adia Harvey Wingfield examines this often-overlooked group and one of the most popular businesses run by these entrepreneurs: hair salons. Using in-depth interviews with hair salon owners, Doing Business with Beauty explores several facets of the business of owning a hair salon, including the process of becoming an owner, the dynamics of the owner-employee relationship, and the factors that steer black women to work in the hair industry. Through Harvey Wingfield's research we can understand the black female business owner's struggle for autonomy and her success in entrepreneurship.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2009-07-15
Mått156 x 232 x 13 mm
Vikt272 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SeriePerspectives on a Multiracial America
Antal sidor176
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9780742561175

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'Getting their hair done' is an intimate experience of Black womanhood across ages and economic classes. Black woman-owned salons are the site of sisterhood, solidarity and competitive struggle. This unique ethnography skillfully reveals the contradictions of financial success despite and because of systemic gendered racism. Doing Business with Beauty is a timely book, a great read for readers from business schools to the social sciences.