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Author : Quincy T. Mills
Release : 2013-11-21
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Rating : 415/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Cutting Along the Color Line by : Quincy T. Mills
Download or read book Cutting Along the Color Line written by Quincy T. Mills. This book was released on 2013-11-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the history of black-owned barber shops in the United States, from pre-Civil War Era through today.
Author : Craig Marberry
Release : 2005
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 643/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Cuttin' Up by : Craig Marberry
Download or read book Cuttin' Up written by Craig Marberry. This book was released on 2005. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of "Crowns" returns with an unforgettable collection of narratives, quotes, and photographs from the most sacred of spacesQthe black barber shop.
Author : Quincy T. Mills
Release : 2013-10-09
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 65X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Cutting Along the Color Line by : Quincy T. Mills
Download or read book Cutting Along the Color Line written by Quincy T. Mills. This book was released on 2013-10-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 to black entrepreneurs, black barbers were obliged by custom to serve an exclusively white clientele. Quincy T. Mills traces the lineage from these nineteenth-century barbers to the bustling enterprises of today, demonstrating that the livelihood offered by the service economy was crucial to the development of a black commercial sphere and the barber shop as a democratic social space. Cutting Along the Color Line chronicles the cultural history of black barber shops as businesses and civic institutions. Through several generations of barbers, Mills examines the transition from slavery to freedom in the nineteenth century, the early twentieth-century expansion of black consumerism, and the challenges of professionalization, licensing laws, and competition from white barbers. He finds that the profession played a significant though complicated role in twentieth-century racial politics: while the services of shaving and grooming were instrumental in the creation of socially acceptable black masculinity, barbering permitted the financial independence to maintain public spaces that fostered civil rights politics. This sweeping, engaging history of an iconic cultural establishment shows that black entrepreneurship was intimately linked to the struggle for equality.
Author : Abraham Verghese
Release : 2012-05-17
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 754/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Cutting for Stone by : Abraham Verghese
Download or read book Cutting for Stone written by Abraham Verghese. This book was released on 2012-05-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon. Orphaned by their mother’s death and their father’s disappearance and bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine, the twins come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the brink of revolution. Moving from Addis Ababa to New York City and back again, Cutting for Stone is an unforgettable story of love and betrayal, medicine and ordinary miracles—and two brothers whose fates are forever intertwined.
Author : Gregory Howard Williams
Release : 1996-02-01
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 330/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Life on the Color Line by : Gregory Howard Williams
Download or read book Life on the Color Line written by Gregory Howard Williams. This book was released on 1996-02-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Heartbreaking and uplifting… a searing book about race and prejudice in America… brims with insights that only someone who has lived on both sides of the racial divide could gain.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer “A triumph of storytelling as well as a triumph of spirit.”—Alex Kotlowitz, award-winning author of There Are No Children Here As a child in 1950s segregated Virginia, Gregory Howard Williams grew up believing he was white. But when the family business failed and his parents’ marriage fell apart, Williams discovered that his dark-skinned father, who had been passing as Italian-American, was half black. The family split up, and Greg, his younger brother, and their father moved to Muncie, Indiana, where the young boys learned the truth about their heritage. Overnight, Greg Williams became black. In this extraordinary and powerful memoir, Williams recounts his remarkable journey along the color line and illuminates the contrasts between the black and white worlds: one of privilege, opportunity and comfort, the other of deprivation, repression, and struggle. He tells of the hostility and prejudice he encountered all too often, from both blacks and whites, and the surprising moments of encouragement and acceptance he found from each. Life on the Color Line is a uniquely important book. It is a wonderfully inspiring testament of purpose, perseverance, and human triumph. Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize
