Pageants Parlors Pretty Women Race And Beauty In The Twentiethcentury South
Human skin color
Beauty shops
Beauty contests
Black race
Race awareness
Civil rights movements, united states
Cosmetics
Beauty, personal
Civil rights movements
Color
Personal Beauty
African American women
Race relations
Psychological aspects
Social aspects
Social conditions
History
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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