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Willie L Morrow.  The Art of Barbering: African American Hair.  San Diego, CA: Morrow's Unlimited, 1993.  (262 pp.)

The Art of Barbering is an instructional 'how-to' book on barbering Black men's hair.  Willie Morrow has written more than 5 books and created more than 20 videos on barbering, styling, and the history of Black hair.  The Art of Barbering walks the reader through clipper selection and maintenance, cutting and trimming methods, and various chemical processes.

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Bessie Radcliff-Darden.  Hair Matters: African Ancestry.  Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, 1996.  (110 pp.)

Hair Matters is an instructional 'how-to' book that focusses on treating Black women's hair.  Bessie Radcliff-Darden is an associate professor of cosmetology at Pasadena City College.  Hair Matters includes a summary and review section after each chapter, as well as a glossary of terms.

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Noliwe M Rooks.  Hair Raising: Beauty, Culture, and African American Women.  New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996.  (161 pp.)

Hair Raising explores the history and politics of hair and beauty culture in African American communities.  Noliwe Rooks is currently the Associate Director of the Program in African American Studies at Princeton and is researching the cultural history of African American women's magazines, 1898-1950.  Hair Raising at times focuses on Rooks' own family, which adds to the coherence of the text.

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Esi Sagay.  African Hairstyles: Styles of Yesterday and Today.  Oxford, England: Heinemann International Literature and Textbooks, 1983.  (108 pp.)

African Hairstyles highlights the design and aesthetics of African hairstyles - both traditional and contemporary.  Esi Sagay is a native of Lagos, Nigeria who now works there as a graphic designer.  African Hairstyles provides step-by-step instructions for the elaborate cornrowing featured inside the book.

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Philip Scranton, ed.  Beauty and Business: Commerce, Gender, and Culture in Modern America.  New York, NY: Routledge, 2001.  (340 pp.)

Beauty and Business is a collection of essays where the authors set out to understand intersections of beauty and business.  Philip Scranton is the director of the Hagley Museum & Library's Center for the History of Business, Technology and Society, and a professor of the history of industry and technology at Rutgers University.  The articles in Beauty and Business on Black hair deal with commodification and viability.

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  1. Roy Sieber and Frank Herreman, eds.  Hair in African Art and Culture.  New York, NY: Museum For African Art, 2000.  (192 pp.)
Hair in African Art and Culture presents vivid color photographs of elaborate African hairstyles, hair tools and head dresses, along with theoretical essays, historical accounts, and narrations about the pictures.  Roy Sieber is a faculty member of the Henry Hope School of Fine Arts at Indiana Uinversity, and Frank Herreman is the Director of Exhibitions at the Museum for African Art.  Hair in African Art and Culture

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Diane Simon.  Hair: Public, Political, Extremely Personal.  New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 2000.  (238 pp.)

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Shane White and Graham White.  Stylin': African American Expressive Culture from Its Beginnings to the Zoot Suit.  Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1998.  (301 pp.)

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Julie A Willett.  Permanent Waves: The Making of the American Beauty Shop.  New York, NY: New York University Press, 2000.  (249 pp.)

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A ' Lelia Bundles:  On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C. J. Walker.  New York, NY: Scribner Publications.  (415 pp.)

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MAGAZINES

Stanley R Harris. Black Hair Care.  December 1996.  New York, NY: Reliance Publications, Inc.  (90 pp.)

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James L Spurlock.  Sophisticate's Black Hair Styles and Care Guide.  Vol13, no.7 (November 1996).  Chicago, IL: Associated Publications, Inc.  (98 pp.)

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