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A Hairdresser's Experience in High Life
A Hairdresser's Experience in High Life
A Hairdresser's Experience in High Life
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Potter was a freeborn black woman who, as a hairdresser, was in a unique position to hear about, receive confidences from, and observe wealthy white women—and she recorded it all in a revelatory book that delighted Cincinnati's gossip columnists at the time. But more important is Potter's portrait of herself as a wage-earning woman, proud of her work, who earned high pay and accumulated quite a bit of money as one of the nation's earliest "beauticians" at a time when most black women worked at the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder. Because her work offered insights into the private lives of elite white women, Potter carved out a literary space that featured a black working woman at the center, rather than at the margins, of the era's transformations in gender, race, and class structure.-Print ed.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateFeb 22, 2023
ISBN9781805230977
A Hairdresser's Experience in High Life
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Eliza Potter

Eliza Potter (born 1820) was an African-American hairdresser in Cincinnati, Ohio.

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