Permanent Waves: The Making of the American Beauty Shop

TABLE OF CONTENTS

  Contents
  List Of Illustrations                             ix
  Acknowledgments                                   xi
  Introduction                                       1
  1. Getting to the Roots of the industry            1
  2 Beauty school Promises and Shop Floor Practices 52
  3. Blue Eagles, Neighborhood Shops, 
       and the Making of a Profession               87
  4- "Growing Faster Than the Dark Roots
       on a Platinum Blonde": The Golden 
       Years of the Neighborhood Shop              121
  5. Afros, Cornrows, and Jesus Hair:
       Corporate America, the Ethnic Market,
       and the Struggle over Professionalism       153
  
  Conclusion                                       197
  Notes                                            201
  Bibliography                                     235
  Index                                            245
  About the Author                                 249