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Barbershop News & Discussion Topics
Harris-Lacewell wrote Barbershops, Bibles, and BET
to explore the way public opinion and ideologies are formed in the black community.
The book, due out next month, examines churches, barbershops, black colleges and black media.
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In antebellum America, some slaves as well as free blacks could earn money barbering, and they held a monopoly in the profession that primarily served wealthy whites.
In the mid- to late 1880s, German and Italian immigrants usurped black barbers.
*During the Great Migration, many black newspapers were distributed from black Barbershops. By 1920, a Chicago directory of black businesses listed 211 barbers and 108 beauty salons.
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