Sheila's shop : working-class African American women talk about life, love, race, and hair / Kimberly Battle-Walters.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Battle-Walters, Kimberly, 1967-

Contributor:

Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Community life.

African American women--Social conditions.

African American women.

Race relations.

African American families.

Racism.

Working class women--Social conditions.

Stress (Psychology).

Working class women.

Social networks.

Social networks--United States.

Community life--United States.

Stress (Psychology)--United States.

African American women--Interviews.

Racism--United States.

Working class women--United States--Social conditions.

Working class women--United States--Interviews.

United States.

United States--Race relations.

Genre:

Interviews.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 135 pages) ; cm.

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing(US), 2004.

Other Title:

Working-class African American women talk about life, love, race, and hair

Place of Publication:

Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©2004.

Summary:

This book also provides insight into the informal support networks that are fostered in public places such as beauty shops - support networks that lay the foundation for strong African American women, families, and communities."--Jacket

"Kimberly Battle-Watlers spent over sixteen months interviewing and listening to women at Sheila's shop while researching this ethnographic work. Literature and the media tend to report either on the lives of upwardly mobile, middle-class African Americans or on the poor, ignoring working-class women. This book focuses on those women, introducing a conceptual model of "racial and gender victorization" to explain the process by which working-class African American women learn to see themselves as victors rather than victims, despite their complex and often difficult lives

"Sheila's Shop invites us into a Southern beauty parlor to meet working-class African American women. We get to know the women individually as they discuss everything from relationships and beauty to politics, equality, race, gender, and class. We hear them speak in their own words about their families and communities and the struggles they face in all areas of life. Sheila's Shop acts as a microcosm of female, working-class, African American society."

Contents:

Sheila's Shop

The Realities of being black and female

African American families and communities

Racial matters

Standing strong

Beyond Sheila's Shop: A new discussion

Appendix A: Interview Questions

Appendix B: Demographics

Appendix C: Methods.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-129) and index.

Print version record

ISBN:

979-82-16-41255-7

OCLC:

1228846451