Ebook: The managed hand: race, gender, and the body in beauty service work
Author: Kang Miliann
- Tags: Asian Americans--Social conditions, Beauty culture--Social aspects--United States, Korean American women--Employment, Korean American women--Employment--United States, Race relations, Women foreign workers, Women foreign workers--United States, Beauty culture -- Social aspects -- United States, Korean American women -- Employment -- United States, Women foreign workers -- United States, Asian Americans -- Social conditions, United States -- Race relations, Korean American women -- Employment, United States
- Year: 2010
- Publisher: University of California Press
- City: Berkeley;United States
- Language: English
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Introduction: manicuring work -- "There's no business like the nail business" -- "What other work is there?": manicurists -- Hooked on nails: customers -- "I just put Koreans and nails together": nail spas and the model minority -- Black people "have not been the ones who get pampered": nail art salons and black-Korean relations -- "You could get a fungus": Asian discount nail salons as the new yellow peril -- Conclusion: what is a manicure worth?
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