Pageants, parlors, & pretty women : race and beauty in the twentieth-century South
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- ISBN: 9781469614205
- ISBN: 1469614200
- ISBN: 9781469614212
- ISBN: 1469614219
- ISBN: 1469615576
- ISBN: 9781469615578
- ISBN: 9781469629865
- ISBN: 1469629860
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xii, 363 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm - Publisher: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2014]
Contents / Notes
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-348) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
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Newton County Library System: Covington Branch Library |
323.1196 ROBERTS (
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31036100017380 | ADULT | Available | |
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