Imagining Caribbean womanhood : Race, nation and beauty competitions, 1929-70 /

Fifty years after Jamaican and Trinidadian independence, Imagining Caribbean Womanhood examines the links between beauty and politics in the Anglophone Caribbean, providing a first cultural history of Caribbean beauty competitions, spanning from Kingston to London. It traces the origins and transfor...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rowe, Rochelle (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York [New York] : Manchester University Press, 2013.
Colección:Gender in history.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Ethnic attitudes > West Indies, British > History > 20th century.
Race awareness > West Indies, British > History > 20th century.
Beauty contests > Political aspects > West Indies, British > History > 20th century.
Beauty contests > Social aspects > West Indies, British > History > 20th century.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Caribbean beauty competitions in context
  • The early 'Miss Jamaica' competition : cultural revolution and feminist voices, 1929-50
  • Cleaning up Carnival : race, culture and power in the Trinidad 'Carnival Queen' beauty competition, 1946-59
  • Parading the crème del la crème' : constructing the contest in Barbados, 1958-66
  • Fashioning 'Ebony Cinderellas' and brown icons : Jamaican beauty competitions and the myth of racial democracy, 1955-64
  • 'Colonisation in reverse' : Claudia Jones, the West Indian Gazette and the 'Carnival Queen' beauty contest in London, 1959-64
  • Afterword : a Grenadian 'Miss World', 1970.

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