Collison, M. N-K. (2002). It’s all good-hair: The guide to styling and grooming black children’s hair. New York: Amistad.
What are you going to do with your children's hair? Combing your daughter's hair is giving you a headache and now your son is asking you for cornrows. Relax. Finally, there's a lifeline for those who are desperately seeking help in styling their Black children's hair. Learn the tricks and techniques for today's most popular hairstyles with the easy-to-follow steps found in It's All Good Hair. It features hair-care and styling tips from a variety of experts, and you'll learn all the secrets to braiding, relaxing, and locking, as well as discover many other creative styling ideas. Say good-bye to those disastrous attempts at doing it alone. Here's the support you need to help your children look good and feel their very best.
Evans, N. (1998). Everything you need to know about hairlocking, African, dread and Nubian locks (3rd ed.). Brooklyn: A& B Publishers Group.
Nekhena Evans is a pioneer in the locked hair care industry. A master loctician, beauty consultant, nationwide lecturer, author and entrepreneur; Nekhena uses her health of experience to help young and old locked hair. Her book Hairlocking: Everything You Need To Know is one of the few books ever published and currently available on locked hair care, its history and its impact on self-esteem and self-awareness.
Wingfield, A. H. (2008). Doing Business With Beauty: Black Women, Hair Salons, and the Racial Enclave Economy. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
Black women comprise one of the fastest-growing groups of business owners in the United States. In Doing Business with Beauty, sociologist Adia Harvey Wingfield examines this often-overlooked group and one of the most popular businesses run by these entrepreneurs: hair salons. Using in-depth interviews with hair salon owners, Doing Business with Beauty explores several facets of the business of owning a hair salon, including the process of becoming an owner, the dynamics of the owner-employee relationship, and the factors that steer black women to work in the hair industry. Through Harvey Wingfield's research we can understand the black female business owner's struggle for autonomy and her success in entrepreneurship.
Harvey, A. M. (2008). “Personal Satisfaction and Economic Improvement: Working-Class Black Women’s Entrepreneurship in the History Industry.” Journal of Black Studies, 38(6), 900-915.
Research that examines the intersections of race, gender, and class in the labor market often points to the fact that African American women are concentrated in the lowest sectors of the labor market, performing the least desirable jobs. Discrimination, the dislocation of work, and even cultural deficiency have all been posited as explanations for Black women's disproportionate concentration in low-wage work. Rather than adding to the voluminous literature that addresses the structural causes for Black women's over-representation in this sector of the labor market, this study explores the viability of entrepreneurship as a route to economic stability for working class Black women. Accepting the reality that working-class Black women are heavily represented among low-wage workers, this study draws from interviews with Black women salon owners to determine whether this form of entrepreneurship functions as a feasible alternative to low-wage labor.
Powell, C. (2018). “Bias, Employment Discrimination, and Black Women’s Hair: Another Way Forward.” Brigham Young University Law Review, 2018(4), 933-968. (2018)
The article discusses the history of discriminatory employment practices against Black women in America as of 2018, and it mentions U.S. courts, racial biases and stereotypes, and the regulation of Black women's hairstyles. Equality for Black employees is addressed, along with Title VII of the U.S. Civil Rights Act of 1964, social engineering, and the legal cases EEOC v. Catastrophe Management Solutions and Rogers v. American Airlines Inc. which deal with racism against Black women.
McCorvey, J.J. (2017). “Can Shea Moisture Untangle Itself?”. Fast Company (www.fastcompany.com/40491611/sheamoistures-tangled-future)
The article discusses strategies of Richelieu Dennis, co-founder of Sundial Brands, the hair care company for black women, for repairing a damage to the reputation of the brand caused by an advertisement. It states that commercial for SheaMoisture, Sundial's flagship haircare brand, that featured white women with long tresses and a light-skinned, apparently biracial woman with silky curls, created controversy on the social media , and mentions that the company was put between identity politics and brand expansion. It offers information on early life of Dennis like his upbringing in Liberia.