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Sheila's Shop

Working-Class African American Women Talk about Life, Love, Race, and Hair

Sheila's Shop( )
Author: Battle-Walters, Kimberly
ISBN:978-0-8476-9932-2
Publication Date:Jul 2004
Publisher:Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:AUD $132.95
Book Description:

Sheila's Shop invites us into a Southern beauty parlor to meet working-class African American women. Kimberly Battle-Walters spent over sixteen months interviewing and listening to women at Sheila's Shop while researching this valuable ethnographic work. Literature and the media tend to report either on the lives of upwardly mobile, middle-class African Americans or on the poor, ignoring working-class women. Sheila's Shop focuses on these women, introducing a conceptual model of...
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