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...
Black women comprise one of the fastest-growing groups of business owners in the United States. In Doing Business with Beauty, sociologist Adia Harvey...
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. Harvey Wingfield examines the black female business owner's struggle for autonomy and success in entrepreneurship.
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 OC invisible menOCO of sociologist Adia Harvey WingfieldOCOs urgent and timely "No More Invisible Man" are African American professionals who fall between extremely high status, high-profile black men and the urban underclass. Her compelling interview study considers middle-class, professional black men and the challenges, obstacles, and opportunities they encounter in white maleOCodominated occupations.
"No More Invisible Man" chronicles these menOCOs experiences as a tokenized minority in the workplace to show how issues of power and inequality existOCoespecially as they relate to...
The OC invisible menOCO of sociologist Adia Harvey WingfieldOCOs urgent and timely "No More Invisible Man" are African American professionals who f...
The 'invisible men' of sociologist Adia Harvey Wingfield's urgent and timely No More Invisible Man are African American professionals who fall between extremely high status, high profile black men and the urban underclass. Her compelling interview study considers middle class, professional black men and the challenges, obstacles, and opportunities they encounter in white male-dominated occupations. No More Invisible Man chronicles these men's experiences as a tokenized minority in the workplace to show how issues of power and inequality exist - especially as it relates to promotion, mobility,...
The 'invisible men' of sociologist Adia Harvey Wingfield's urgent and timely No More Invisible Man are African American professionals who fall between...
'Yes We Can?' offers a sociological analysis of Barack Obama's presidential campaign. The authors assess the ways racial framing was deployed by principal characters and argue against the belief that the Obama victory ushered in a new post-racial era.
'Yes We Can?' offers a sociological analysis of Barack Obama's presidential campaign. The authors assess the ways racial framing was deployed by princ...
'Yes We Can?' offers a sociological analysis of Barack Obama's presidential campaign. The authors assess the ways racial framing was deployed by principal characters and argue against the belief that the Obama victory ushered in a new post-racial era.
'Yes We Can?' offers a sociological analysis of Barack Obama's presidential campaign. The authors assess the ways racial framing was deployed by princ...
