Pageants, Parlors, and Pretty Women : Race and Beauty in the Twentieth-Century South /

Pageants, Parlors, and Pretty Women: Race and Beauty in the Twentieth-Century South.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Roberts, Blain (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2014]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Race relations.
Race awareness.
Human skin color > Psychological aspects.
Civil rights movements.
Black race > Color > Social aspects.
Beauty shops > Social aspects.
Beauty, Personal > Social aspects.
African American women > Social conditions.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
Concours de beaute > Aspect social > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Cosmetiques > Aspect social > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Couleur de la peau > États-Unis (Sud) > Aspect psychologique > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Race noire > Couleur > Aspect social > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Noires americaines > États-Unis (Sud) > Conditions sociales > 20e siecle.
Conscience de race > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Mouvements des droits de l'homme > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Beauty contests > Social aspects > Southern States > History > 20th century.
Beauty shops > Social aspects > Southern States > History > 20th century.
Beauty, Personal > Social aspects > Southern States > History > 20th century.
Cosmetics > Social aspects > Southern States > History > 20th century.
Human skin color > Southern States > Psychological aspects > History > 20th century.
Black race > Color > Social aspects > Southern States > History > 20th century.
African American women > Southern States > Social conditions > 20th century.
Race awareness > Southern States > History > 20th century.
Civil rights movements > Southern States > History > 20th century.
Southern States.
États-Unis (Sud) > Relations raciales > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Southern States > Race relations > History > 20th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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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