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 | #1645131 in eBooks |  2009-09-16 |  2009-09-16 | File type: PDF

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| I desperately wanted to enjoy this book|By Matt|I desperately wanted to enjoy this book. This book is clearly written by an academic for academics. It is exhaustively researched and certainly fascinating, and if you were interested in the history of barbering as it relates to race relations in the US, then this is the book for you. But the writing style is more for academics th| ||"An insightful and well-written analysis of race, racism, and the resourcefulness of black enterprise in the long nineteenth century. Douglas Walter Bristol has illuminated a history that well represents the process of African American men transforming themse

Black barbers, reflected a freed slave who barbered in antebellum St. Louis, may have been "the only men in their community who enjoyed, at all times, the privilege of free speech." The reason, of course, lay in their temporary―but absolute―power over a client. With a flick of the wrist, nineteenth-century black barbers could have slit the throats of the white men they shaved. In Knights of the Razor, Douglas Walter Bristol, Jr., explores this extraordinar...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Knights of the Razor: Black Barbers in Slavery and Freedom   |  Douglas W. Bristol Jr.. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.

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