Pageants, parlors, & pretty women :
Roberts, Blain.
Pageants, parlors, & pretty women : race and beauty in the twentieth-century South / Blain Roberts. - xii, 363 pages : illustrations ;
Introduction -- Making up white Southern womanhood : the democratization of the Southern lady -- Shop talk : ritual and space in the Southern black beauty parlor -- Homegrown royalty : white beauty contests in the rural South -- Thrones of their own : body and beauty contests among Southern black women -- Bodies politic : beauty and racial crisis in the civil rights era -- Conclusion.
9781469614205 (cloth : alk. paper)
Civil rights movements--History--Southern States--20th century.
Race awareness--History--Southern States--20th century.
African American women--Social conditions--Southern States--20th century.
Black race--Color--Social aspects--History--Southern States--20th century.
Human skin color--Psychological aspects--History--Southern States--20th century.
Cosmetics--Social aspects--History--Southern States--20th century.
Beauty, Personal--Social aspects--History--Southern States--20th century.
Beauty shops--Social aspects--History--Southern States--20th century.
Beauty contests--Social aspects--History--Southern States--20th century.
323.1196/07300904
Pageants, parlors, & pretty women : race and beauty in the twentieth-century South / Blain Roberts. - xii, 363 pages : illustrations ;
Introduction -- Making up white Southern womanhood : the democratization of the Southern lady -- Shop talk : ritual and space in the Southern black beauty parlor -- Homegrown royalty : white beauty contests in the rural South -- Thrones of their own : body and beauty contests among Southern black women -- Bodies politic : beauty and racial crisis in the civil rights era -- Conclusion.
9781469614205 (cloth : alk. paper)
Civil rights movements--History--Southern States--20th century.
Race awareness--History--Southern States--20th century.
African American women--Social conditions--Southern States--20th century.
Black race--Color--Social aspects--History--Southern States--20th century.
Human skin color--Psychological aspects--History--Southern States--20th century.
Cosmetics--Social aspects--History--Southern States--20th century.
Beauty, Personal--Social aspects--History--Southern States--20th century.
Beauty shops--Social aspects--History--Southern States--20th century.
Beauty contests--Social aspects--History--Southern States--20th century.
323.1196/07300904