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Author:

Roberts, Blain.

Title:

Pageants, parlors, & pretty women : race and beauty in the twentieth-century South / Blain Roberts.

Publisher:

The University of North Carolina Press,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

xii, 363 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Subject:

Civil rights movements--Southern States--History--20th century.
Southern States--History--History--20th century.
Race awareness--Southern States--History--20th century.
African American women--Southern States--Social conditions--20th century.
Black race--History--Social aspects--Southern States--History--20th century.
Human skin color--Southern States--History--History--20th century.
Cosmetics--History--Southern States--History--20th century.
Beauty, Personal--History--Southern States--History--20th century.
Beauty shops--History--Southern States--History--20th century.
Beauty contests--History--Southern States--History--20th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-348) and index.

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.

ISBN:

1469614200 (hbk. : alk. paper)
9781469614205 (hbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)857897931

LCCN:

2013035602

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)