Title Style & status : selling beauty to African American women, 1920-1975 / Susannah Walker.

Publication Info.	Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, [2007]
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University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location	306.4613 W184S	Check Shelf

Description	xiii, 250 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-237) and index.
Contents	Introduction : Why hair is political -- The beauty industry is ours : developing African American consumer citizenship in the 1920s and 1930s --Everyone admires the woman who has beautiful hair : mediating African American beauty standards in the 1920s and 1930s -- An export market at home : expanding African American consumer culture in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s -- Beauty services offered from head to toe : promoting beauty to African American women in the 1940s and 1950s -- All hair is good hair : integrating beauty in the 1950s and 1960s -- Black is beautiful : redefining Beauty in the 1960s and 1970s -- Conclusion : why African American beauty culture is still contested.
Summary	"In Style and Status: Selling Beauty to African American Women, 1920-1975, Susannah Walker analyzes an often overlooked facet of twentieth-century consumer society as she explores the political, social, and racial implications of the business devoted to producing and marketing beauty products for African American women."--BOOK JACKET.
Subject	African American women -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
	African American women -- Race identity.
	Beauty, Personal -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Beauty, Personal -- Economic aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Beauty culture -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Beauty culture -- Economic aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	African Americans in popular culture -- History -- 20th century.
	United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
	Soziale Situation.
	Rassische Identität.
	Rassenbeziehung.
	Weibliche Schwarze.
	Schönheitsideal.
	United States.
Added Title	Style and status
Other Form:	Online version: Walker, Susannah, 1970- Style & status. Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, c2007 (OCoLC)608409797
	Online version: Walker, Susannah, 1970- Style & status. Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, c2007 (OCoLC)609239975
ISBN	9780813124339 hardcover alkaline paper
	0813124336 hardcover alkaline paper

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