Style & status : selling beauty to African American women, 1920-1975 /

Examines twentieth-century commercial beauty culture in terms of race and gender. This work demonstrates that while black women's beauty culture often mirrored that of white women in important ways, it remained distinctive because it explicitly articulated racial politics in the United States.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Walker, Susannah, 1970- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, ©2007.
Temas:
1900-1999
African American women > Social conditions > 20th century.
African American women > Race identity.
Beauty, Personal > Social aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
Beauty, Personal > Economic aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
Beauty culture > Social aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
Beauty culture > Economic aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
Popular culture > United States > History > 20th century.
African Americans in popular culture > History > 20th century.
African American women > Ethnic identity.
Noires américaines > Conditions sociales > 20e siècle.
Noires américaines > Identité ethnique.
Culture populaire > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Noirs américains dans la culture populaire > Histoire > 20e siècle.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
African American women > Race identity
African American women > Social conditions
African Americans in popular culture
Beauty, Personal > Social aspects
Popular culture
Race relations
United States > Race relations > History > 20th century.
États-Unis > Relations raciales > Histoire > 20e siècle.
United States
Electronic books.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Why hair is political
  • The beauty industry is ours : developing African American consumer citizenship in the 1920s and 1930s
  • Everyone admires the woman who has beautiful hair : mediating African American beauty standards in the 1920s and 1930s
  • An export market at home : expanding African American consumer culture in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s
  • Beauty services offered from head to toe : promoting beauty to African American women in the 1940s and 1950s
  • All hair is good hair : integrating beauty in the 1950s and 1960s
  • Black is beautiful : redefining Beauty in the 1960s and 1970s
  • Conclusion : why African American beauty culture is still contested.

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