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Author Roberts, Blain.

Title Pageants, parlors, & pretty women : race and beauty in the twentieth-century South / Blain Roberts.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2014].

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 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  323.1196 RO    Check Shelf
Description xii, 363 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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.
Subject Civil rights movements -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.
Race awareness -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.
African American women -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Black race -- Color -- Social aspects -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.
Human skin color -- Southern States -- Psychological aspects -- History -- 20th century.
Cosmetics -- Social aspects -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.
Beauty, Personal -- Social aspects -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.
Beauty shops -- Social aspects -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.
Beauty contests -- Social aspects -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.
Southern States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
ISBN 9781469614205 (cloth: alkaline paper)
1469614200 (cloth: alkaline paper)
9781469614212 (ebook)
1469614219 (ebook)
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