Ain't I a beauty queen? : black women, beauty, and the politics of race /
Black is Beautiful! The words were the exuberant rallying cry of a generation of black women who threw away their straightening combs and adopted a proud new style they called the Afro. The Afro, as worn most famously by Angela Davis, became a veritable icon of the Sixties. Although the new beauty s...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2002.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Black is Beautiful! The words were the exuberant rallying cry of a generation of black women who threw away their straightening combs and adopted a proud new style they called the Afro. The Afro, as worn most famously by Angela Davis, became a veritable icon of the Sixties. Although the new beauty standards seemed to arise overnight, they actually had deep roots within black communities. Tracing her story to 1891, when a black newspaper launched a contest to find the most beautiful woman of the race, Maxine Leeds Craig documents how black women have negotiated the intersection of race, class. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780198032557 0198032552 9781602566712 1602566712 9781280655296 1280655291 9780199849345 019984934X 0195185358 9780195185355 9786610655298 6610655294 9780199881673 0199881677 |