Style & status : selling beauty to African American women, 1920-1975

Style & status : selling beauty to African American women, 1920-1975 / Susannah Walker.

Author/creator	Walker, Susannah, 1970-
Other author/creator	ProQuest (Firm)
Format	Electronic and Book
Publication Info	Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, ©2007.
Description	xiii, 250 pages : illustrations
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Subject(s)	African American women--Social conditions --20th century. African American women--Race identity. Beauty, Personal--Social aspects --United States --History --20th century. Beauty, Personal--Economic aspects --United States --History --20th century. Beauty culture--Social aspects --United States --History --20th century. Beauty culture--Economic aspects --United States --History --20th century. Popular culture--United States --History --20th century. African Americans in popular culture--History --20th century. United States--Race relations --History --20th century.

Variant title	Style and status
Contents	Introduction : Why hair is political -- The beauty industry is ours : developing African American consumer citizenship in the 1920s and 1930s --Everyone admires the woman who has beautiful hair : mediating African American beauty standards in the 1920s and 1930s -- An export market at home : expanding African American consumer culture in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s -- Beauty services offered from head to toe : promoting beauty to African American women in the 1940s and 1950s -- All hair is good hair : integrating beauty in the 1950s and 1960s -- Black is beautiful : redefining Beauty in the 1960s and 1970s -- Conclusion : why African American beauty culture is still contested.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Reproduction note	Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2006033478

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