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

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 | #315429 in Books |  Blain Roberts |  2016-08-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.24 x1.03 x6.17l,.0 | File type: PDF | 384 pages

 | Pageants Parlors and Pretty Women Race and Beauty in the Twentieth Century South

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||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Pageant "Yaya"|By Taliba|This book was very informative but more politically informative than I originally thought it would be. I wanted it to be more more about the actual pageants and how it affected the women in them but this was more of a hisotrical point of view and concerning the issue of Black females. I think the author missed some cultural points because she hadn't li| |A most significant addition to the scholarship on southern beauty culture.--Arkansas Historical Quarterly||

[A] fascinating book [that] explores the products, rituals, institutions and beliefs surrounding female beauty to elucidate the econom

From the South's pageant queens to the importance of beauty parlors to African American communities, it is easy to see the ways beauty is enmeshed in southern culture. But as Blain Roberts shows in this incisive work, the pursuit of beauty in the South was linked to the tumultuous racial divides of the region, where the Jim Crow-era cosmetics industry came of age selling the idea of makeup that emphasized whiteness, and where, in the 1950s and 1960s, black-owned beauty s...

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