Pageants, parlors, & pretty women : race and beauty in the twentieth-century South

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

Author/creator	Roberts, Blain
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2014]
Description	xii, 363 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Subject(s)	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.

Variant title	Pageants, parlors, and pretty women
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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-348) and index.
LCCN	2013035602
ISBN	9781469614205 (hbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN	1469614200 (hbk. : alk. paper)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	E185.615 .R522 2014	✔ Available	Place Hold