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Title: The managed hand race, gender, and the body in beauty service work / Miliann Kang.
Main Entry: Kang, Miliann.
ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: University of California Press,
Publication Date: c2010.
Publication Place: Berkeley :
ISBN: 9780520262584 (cloth alk. paper)
9780520262607 (pbk. alk. paper)
9780520945654 (e-book)
Subject: 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.
Contents: 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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