Beauty in a Box : Detangling the Roots of Canada's Black Beauty Culture /

One of the first transnational, feminist studies of Canada's black beauty culture and the role that media, retail, and consumers have played in its development, Beauty in a Box widens our understanding of the politics of black hair. The book analyzes advertisements and articles from media--news...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Thompson, Cheryl, 1977- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2019
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Beauty, Personal > United States.
Hair > Social aspects > United States.
African Americans > Race identity.
African American women > Race identity.
Beauty culture > Social aspects > Canada > History > 20th century.
Beauty, Personal > Social aspects > Canada > History > 20th century.
Beauty, Personal > Canada > History > 20th century.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • African Canadian newspapers and early black beauty culture, 1914-1945
  • From ebony's "brownskin" to "black is beautiful" in the News observer, 1946-1969
  • Black beauty culture in the pages of Contrast and Share : local beauty salons, department stores, and drugstores in the 1970s and 1980s
  • Global conglomerates take over black beauty culture : the ethnically ambiguous, "multicultural" 1990s and 2000s
  • The politics of black hair in the twenty-first century.

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