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Audio Recording "Any Hispanic hairdresser would learn how to do both types of hair, black people's hair and white people's hair."

"Any Hispanic hairdresser would learn how to do both types of hair, black people's hair and white people's hair."

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Title

  • "Any Hispanic hairdresser would learn how to do both types of hair, black people's hair and white people's hair."

Names

  • Garcia, Luz (Narrator)
  • Carroll, Thomas D. (Interviewer)

Created / Published

  • 1994-09-14

Headings

  • -  Interviews
  • -  Beauty Shops
  • -  Oral history
  • -  Sound recordings
  • -  21st Avenue (Paterson, N. J.)
  • -  Mari's Hair People (Paterson, N.J.)
  • -  Ethnography
  • -  United States -- New Jersey -- Paterson

Genre

  • Ethnography
  • Interviews

Notes

  • -  Interview with Luz Garcia, owner of Mari's Hair People.
  • -  Summary of audio segment: Did Esmeralda have to learn how to do Black styles? LG says no, learned it in school. Years ago, had Black shops to do Black hair. But today, mostly Hispanic [hairdressers], because in our race there's black, white, and Indian. So any Hispanic hairdresser would learn how to do both types of hair, black people's hair and white people's hair. So when go to hairdresser's school, give you the training for both. In our people, there's both, so have interest of learning. And go to shows, workshops, etc. But today, LG not into Black styles because clients mostly Hispanic, though she knows how to do the black styles. So today Esmeralda's clients are mostly black. In the 1960s and 1970s, they only had black shops for black people, but then in the 1980s, they started coming out with new perms, relaxers, the current look for Black people, so everybody was into it, and so the Black people started coming to Hispanic shops because Hispanic hairdressers knew how to do the styles.

Medium

  • Digital Audio Tape

Call Number/Physical Location

  • AFC 1995/028: WIP-TDC-A025

Source Collection

  • Working in Paterson Project Collection (AFC 1995/028)

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

Digital Id

Online Format

  • audio

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Credit line

Working in Paterson Project collection, 1993-2002 (AFC 1995/028), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

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Chicago citation style:

Garcia, Luz, and Thomas D Carroll. "Any Hispanic hairdresser would learn how to do both types of hair, black people's hair and white people's hair.". -09-14, 1994. Audio. https://www.loc.gov/item/afcwip004005/.

APA citation style:

Garcia, L. & Carroll, T. D. (1994) "Any Hispanic hairdresser would learn how to do both types of hair, black people's hair and white people's hair.". -09-14. [Audio] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afcwip004005/.

MLA citation style:

Garcia, Luz, and Thomas D Carroll. "Any Hispanic hairdresser would learn how to do both types of hair, black people's hair and white people's hair.". -09-14, 1994. Audio. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afcwip004005/>.