Beauty in a box detangling the roots of Canada's black beauty culture / Cheryl Thompson.
| Author/creator | Thompson, Cheryl, 1977- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Waterloo, Ontario, Canada : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, [2019] |
| Description | 311 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 23 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Contents | 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 ethically ambiguous "multicultural" 1990s and 2000s -- The politics of black hair in the twenty-first century. |
| Abstract | "It's about black beauty culture in North America from an interdisciplinary perspective that encompasses many fields: history, race and cultural theory, consumer culture theory, media studies, diasporic art history, black feminism, visual culture, film studies, and political economy."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-303) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Other forms | Issued also in electronic format. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2019394353 |
| ISBN | 9781771123587 (softcover) |
| ISBN | (EPUB) |
| ISBN | (PDF) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |