Chapter 1 Resources

Salon worker health is addressed in this video by Women’s Voices of the Earth.

The Instagram post accompanying this photo illustration references a seminal manuscript dealing with racialized hygiene, Tidy Whiteness: A Genealogy of Race, Purity, and Hygiene, by Dana Berthold.

 Books that address race and the social construction of hygiene practices and language include:

 Clean and White: A History of Environmental Racism in the United States, by Carl A. Zimring.

Clean: A History of Personal Hygiene and Purity, by Virginia Smith.

Breast Cancer Prevention Partners, a national organization working to eliminate toxic chemicals and other environmental exposures that lead to breast cancer. (bcpp.org)
 

Black Women for Wellness, an environmental justice organization committed to the health and well-being of Black women and girls via health education, empowerment and advocacy. (bwwla.org)