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

Name: Pageants, Parlors, and Pretty Women Race and Beauty in the Twentieth-Century South
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ISBN: 9781469614205

ISBN-10: 1469614200

ISBN-13: 9781469614205

Edition: 2014

Authors: Blain Roberts

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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 1960s, black-owned beauty shops served as crucial sites of resistance for civil rights activists. In these times of strained relations in the South, beauty became a signifier of power and affluence while it reinforced racial strife.Roberts examines a…

Book details

List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 3/17/2014
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 384
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.506
Language: English

Blain Roberts founded Lahaina Divers in 1978. He has shot thousands of underwater photos and was inducted as a Platinum Pro alongside Jacques Cousteau in the 1990s. He is the co-owner of Westport Winery in Aberdeen, Washington.