Style & status : selling beauty to African American women, 1920-1975 / Susannah Walker.
| Author/creator | Walker, Susannah, 1970- |
| Other author | ProQuest (Firm) |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, ©2007. |
| Description | xiii, 250 pages : illustrations |
| Supplemental Content | Click to View |
| Subjects |
| Variant title | Style and status |
| Contents | Introduction : Why hair is political -- The beauty industry is ours : developing African American consumer citizenship in the 1920s and 1930s --Everyone admires the woman who has beautiful hair : mediating African American beauty standards in the 1920s and 1930s -- An export market at home : expanding African American consumer culture in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s -- Beauty services offered from head to toe : promoting beauty to African American women in the 1940s and 1950s -- All hair is good hair : integrating beauty in the 1950s and 1960s -- Black is beautiful : redefining Beauty in the 1960s and 1970s -- Conclusion : why African American beauty culture is still contested. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2006033478 |
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