![]() ![]() ![]() But it’s cozy in her perspective, and she makes it so on person: here, you can talk as much trash as you want and come out feeling like a better person. However, like my mom, Eliza just says shit that’s like, no pls stop talking. Buy Hairdressers Experience in High Life by Eliza Potter from Waterstones today Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on. I think scholarship that consider her use and mapping of space are onto something. U must be kitten me? Eliza could describe a dress, spin a tale, and issue some confusing social criticism, just as well as she can absorb you into her point of view, an inarguably Black one. ![]() Im paraphrasing, but one critic notably called hairdresser an African American autobiography without any African Americans. ![]() As popular narrative journalism, Eliza’s private nature makes sense, but it seems common for modern readers to feel let down by her secrets and ho-hum abolitionism. Called travel writing, autobiography, and social criticism, the form closely follows popular social reporting and travel correspondence in newspapers of the time. Black antebellum hairdresser to the stars combs her way from Cincinnati to France, and into New Orleans, then spills the beans on her clientele in a self-published book. Eliza Potter's 1859 autobiography expresses her indignation, abolitionist sentiments, fiery temper, and sheer joy of life as she reveals the private selves of the white women whose heads she " combed." As an insider on the margins, her identity provides a unique vantage point for her. This article relies excessively on references to primary sources. ![]()
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