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Pageants, parlors, & pretty women race and beauty in the twentieth-century South
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Pageants, parlors, & pretty women [electronic resource] : race and beauty in the twentieth-century South / Blain Roberts.
ISBN
1469615576
9781469615578
9781469614205 (cloth : alk. paper)
Published
Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2014]. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource (xii, 363 pages :) : illustrations ;
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Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 04, 2016
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-348) and index.
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.
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