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Kang, Miliann.

The managed hand race, gender, and the body in beauty service work / [electronic resource] : Miliann Kang. - Berkeley : University of California Press, c2010. - xv, 309 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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?.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2011.
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Subjects--Topical Terms:
Beauty culture--Social aspects--United States.
Korean American women--Employment--United States.
Women foreign workers--United States.
Asian Americans--Social conditions.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
United States--Race relations.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: TT958 / .K36 2010eb

Dewey Class. No.: 391.6