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

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 19...

By Blain Roberts
Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press; Reprint edition (August 1, 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9781469629865
ISBN-13: 978-1469629865
ASIN: 1469629860
Product Dimensions: 6.2 x 1 x 9.2 inches
Amazon Rank: 1776216
Format: PDF ePub TXT book

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This well-researched book ties together attitudes toward women and beauty in the south and how women were used as vehicles to advertise or promote products and ideas. Special attention to beauty pageants and the role of the beauty parlor. Haven't

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