TY - BOOK AU - Roberts,Blain TI - Pageants, parlors, & pretty women: race and beauty in the twentieth-century South SN - 9781469614205 (cloth : alk. paper) U1 - 323.1196/07300904 KW - Civil rights movements KW - Southern States KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Race awareness KW - African American women KW - Social conditions KW - Black race KW - Color KW - Social aspects KW - Human skin color KW - Psychological aspects KW - Cosmetics KW - Beauty, Personal KW - Beauty shops KW - Beauty contests N1 - 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 ER -