Editing Barber (section)

===Modernity===
[[File:Bucharest Barbershop 1842.jpg|thumb|right|Barbershop in [[Bucharest]] ≈1842. The barbershop also provides an opportunity for social contacts.]]Barbershops were influential at the turn of the 19th century in the United States as [[African-American businesses|African American businesses]] that helped to develop [[African American]] culture and economy. According to Trudier Harris, "In addition to its status as a gathering place, the black barbershop also functioned as a complicated and often contradictory [[Macrocosm and microcosm|microcosm]] of the larger world. It is an environment that can bolster egos and be supportive as well as a place where phony men can be destroyed, or at least highly shamed, from participation in verbal contests and other contests of skill. It is a retreat, a haven, an escape from nagging wives and the cares of the world. It is a place where men can be men. It is a place, in contrast to Gordone's [[Bar (establishment)|bar]], to be somebody."<ref name="black barbershop">{{cite journal|last=Harris|first=Trudier|title=The Barbershop in Black Literature|journal=Black American Literature Forum|date=Autumn 1979|volume=13|issue=3|pages=112–118|jstor=3041528|doi=10.2307/3041528}}</ref> Barbershops from black barbers at first mostly served wealthy Caucasians. In the later part of the century they opened barbershops in black communities for serving black people.<ref name="eighteeneight.com">{{Cite web|url=https://eighteeneight.com/austin-tx/a/|title=A Quick History Of Barbering {{!}} Austin, TX Barbershop|website=eighteeneight.com|access-date=2018-06-18|date=2017-10-16|archive-date=2021-03-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308210233/https://eighteeneight.com/austin-tx/a/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
The average shop cost $20 to equip in 1880. It was about ten by twelve feet. A hair cut in 1880 would cost five or ten cents and shaving cost three cents.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.nationalbarbermuseum.org/about/barbering-timeline|title=Barbering Timeline - National Barber Museum|website=www.nationalbarbermuseum.org|access-date=2018-06-18}}</ref>

[[File:Blow_hair_dryer.jpg|thumb|207x207px|A hair dryer in barbershop]]
[[File:At the barber shop, Essex County (I0015263).tiff|thumb|A barber shop in Essex County, Ontario, [ca. 1900], with the photographer visible in the mirror at the back.]]
In the late 19th and early 20th century, barbershops became a common business in the United States where people would go to have their hair cut by a professional barber with good equipment. People would also play [[board game]]s, talk about recent events, or gossip.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://eu.tennessean.com/story/news/2018/01/11/oprah-president-winfrey-barbershop-nashville/1015204001/|title=Oprah for president? The buzz at Winfrey's barbershop in Nashville|last=Bliss|first=Jessica|date=2018-01-12|work=The Tennessean|access-date=2018-06-17}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://beardtrimandgroom.com/the-history-of-barbers/|title=History Of Barbers|website=beardtrimandgroom.com|date=27 September 2014|access-date=2018-06-18|archive-date=2021-07-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210711064224/https://beardtrimandgroom.com/the-history-of-barbers/|url-status=dead}}</ref> They have also occasionally been used for public debates or voicing public concerns.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.coloradobarbers.com/history-of-barbering|title=coloradobarbers|website=coloradobarbers|access-date=2018-06-18|archive-date=2021-07-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210711064222/https://www.coloradobarbers.com/history-of-barbering|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Most modern barbershops have special [[barber chair]]s, and special equipment for rinsing and washing hair. In some barbershops, people can read magazines or watch TV while the barber works.

[[File:Iranian barber.jpg|thumb|right|An Iranian barber shaping his customer's beard in [[Ahvaz]], Iran ≈2022]]
Despite the economic recession in 2008, the barbershop industry has seen continued positive growth. In 2018 there was a trial that had barbers check high blood pressure in barbershops and have a pharmacist meet and treat the patient in the barbershop, with positive results.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/21/upshot/what-barbershops-can-teach-about-delivering-health-care.html|title=What Barbershops Can Teach About Delivering Health Care|last=Caroll|first=Aaron E.|date=2018-05-21|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=2018-06-18}}</ref>

In 2018, Arthur Rubinoff opened a museum with barber poles and antique barber equipment in [[Manhattan]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/04/nyregion/barbering-is-an-art.html|title=Barbering Is an Art|last=Kilgannon|first=Corey|date=2018-05-04|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=2018-06-18}}</ref>

The barber [[Sam Mature]], whose interview with [[Studs Terkel]] was published in Terkel's 1974 book ''[[Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do|Working]]'', says "A man used to get a haircut every couple weeks. Now he waits a month or two, some of 'em even longer than that. A lot of people would get manicured and fixed up every week. Most of these people retired, moved away, or died. It's all on account of long hair. You take old-timers, they wanted to look neat, to be presentable. Now people don't seem to care too much."

Given their importance as social hubs in certain cultures, barbershops have been used in educational campaigns. These include the U.S. literacy project Barbershop Books,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://barbershopbooks.org/about-us/|title=About Us – Barbershop Books|work=Barbershop Books|access-date=2018-08-14}}</ref> which sets up reading stations in barbershops to promote a culture of reading among African American boys.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pw.org/content/barbershop_books_0|title=Barbershop Books|last=Ro|first=Christine|date=2018-06-13|website=Poets & Writers}}</ref> Public health researchers have also explored barbershops as a venue for sexual health education.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Randolph|first1=Schenita D.|last2=Pleasants|first2=Terrence|last3=Gonzalez-Guarda|first3=Rosa M.|date=November 2017|title=Barber-led sexual health education intervention for Black male adolescents and their fathers|journal=Public Health Nursing|volume=34|issue=6|pages=555–560|doi=10.1111/phn.12350|issn=1525-1446|pmid=28812306|s2cid=11564832}}</ref>

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File:Enrique Simonet - El barbero del zoco - 1897.jpg|"The Barber at the Souk" by [[Enrique Simonet]], 1897
File:Barber at Peshawar British India 1907.jpg|Barber at [[Peshawar]], [[British India]], 1907
File:TexasRichardson barberShop.jpg|Interior of a barber's shop, circa 1920
File:Old barbershop in West Texas IMG 4596.JPG|The barbershop in Fluvanna, Texas, was restored in 2010 as part of a pioneer village in [[Snyder, Texas|Snyder]] in [[Scurry County, Texas|Scurry County]] in [[West Texas]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://historicscurrycounty.com/exhibits.htm|title=Heritage Village {{!}} Snyder, Scurry County, Texas|website=historicscurrycounty.com|access-date=2018-06-19}}</ref>
File:Inside a New Traditional Barber Shop in Bucharest, Romania.jpg|Barbershop in [[Bucharest]] around 2016. Men find the lost comradery between their peers, inside such "new traditional" barbershops, a revival of the old ones.
File:Barber Shop Museum 290 Columbus Av jeh.jpg|Barber Shop Museum in Manhattan
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