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Cover of Pageants Parlors Pretty Women Race And Beauty In The Twentiethcentury South

Pageants Parlors Pretty Women Race And Beauty In The Twentiethcentury South

by Blain Roberts

2014 363 pages eng

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 …

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