Historian Quincy Mills talks about “Cutting Along the Color Line: Black Barbers and Barber Shops in America”?? 
DR. QUINCY MILLS, VASSAR COLLEGE
Monday, March 12, 2018
6:00 pm??-??8:00 pm
Providence Public Library
150 Empire Street.
Free.
Registration Required: Click below.
Dr. Quincy Mills, Associate Professor of History and Director of??Africana??Studies at Vassar College, and author of??Cutting Along the Color Line: Black Barbers and Barber Shops in America??(2013) will talk.??
Join us for a discussion of??barbers and patrons; shaves and haircuts; identity formation and civic engagement; and hair, lots of hair.
Black barbershops encompass these activities of labor, consumption, and racial politics.
Barbershops are more than businesses in the service sector that tend to hair, they are also public spaces that illuminate the work of identity in daily life.
Mills helps us explore the culture and commerce of black-owned barbershops during slavery and freedom in order to situate the larger politics of hair in both the public and private sphere.