Pageants, parlors, & pretty women : race and beauty in the twentieth-century South / Blain Roberts.
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TextDescription: xii, 363 pages : illustrationsISBN: - 9781469614205 (cloth : alk. paper)
- Civil rights movements -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century
- Race awareness -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century
- African American women -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- Black race -- Color -- Social aspects -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century
- Human skin color -- Psychological aspects -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century
- Cosmetics -- Social aspects -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century
- Beauty, Personal -- Social aspects -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century
- Beauty shops -- Social aspects -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century
- Beauty contests -- Social aspects -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century
- 323.1196/07300904
Contents:
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.
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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.
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