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

Author/creator Roberts, Blain
Format Book
PublicationChapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2014]
Descriptionxii, 363 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Subjects
Civil rights movements--Southern States. --History. --20th century.
Race awareness--Southern States. --History. --20th century.
African American women--Southern States. --Social conditions. --20th century.
Black race--Color. --Social aspects. --Southern States. --History. --20th century.
Human skin color--Southern States. --Psychological aspects. --History. --20th century.
Cosmetics--Social aspects. --Southern States. --History. --20th century.
Beauty, Personal--Social aspects. --Southern States. --History. --20th century.
Beauty shops--Social aspects. --Southern States. --History. --20th century.
Beauty contests--Social aspects. --Southern States. --History. --20th century.
Southern States--Race relations. --History. --20th century.

Variant title Pageants, parlors, and pretty women
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 323-348) and index.
LCCN 2013035602
ISBN9781469614205 (hbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN1469614200 (hbk. : alk. paper)

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