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The managed hand race, gender, and the body in beauty service work /

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Main Author: Kang, Miliann.
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2010.
Subjects:
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.
Electronic books.
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300 |a xv, 309 p. :  |b ill. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a 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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