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Ingrid Banks
University of California, Santa Barbara
Visiting Scholar
2008 to 2009
Ingrid Banks, Associate Professor of Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, will complete a paper on contemporary manifestations of racial segregation and integration in black beauty salons. Banks’ preliminary data suggests that while black salon owners would welcome a more integrated clientele, segregation persists. Yet segregation in such black-owned private businesses is not viewed as a significant social problem – in stark contrast to how segregation is viewed in public sector settings such as schools and workplaces.
Ingrid Banks
University of California, Santa Barbara
Visiting Scholar
2004 to 2005
Ingrid Banks, Assistant Professor of Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, will analyze ethnographic data from five U.S. cities to write a book looking at black-owned beauty salons. While a great deal of research has examined black-white cultural contact in work settings where the races are compelled to interact, this work will focus on an area that is less well-documented: interaction in black-dominated settings that whites choose to enter. Banks' early results indicate that blacks welcome integration of these primarily homogenous environments.