Doing Business With Beauty: Black Women, Hair Salons, and the Racial Enclave Economy (Perspectives on a Multiracial America)
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| Title | : | Doing Business With Beauty: Black Women, Hair Salons, and the Racial Enclave Economy (Perspectives on a Multiracial America) |
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| Rating | : | 4.85 (833 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0742561178 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 176 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2009-07-15 |
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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.
Editorial : '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. (Philomena Essed, Leadership and Change Program, Antioch University)
In this beautifully written ethnographic book, Adia Harvey Wingfield delves into the world of black women beauty salons. Wingfield uses the 'racial enclave economy' rather than the 'ethnic enclave economy' to emphasize the experiences with gendered racism among black salon owners, stylists and customers. This book is a significant contribution not only to the ethnic entrepreneurship literature that has almost ignored black businesses, but also to race-gender interse
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