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Author Walker, Susannah, 1970- author.

Title Style & status : selling beauty to African American women, 1920-1975 / Susannah Walker
Published Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 250 pages) : illustrations
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
Summary Examines twentieth-century commercial beauty culture in terms of race and gender. This work demonstrates that while black women's beauty culture often mirrored that of white women in important ways, it remained distinctive because it explicitly articulated racial politics in the United States
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-237) and index
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Subject 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
African American women -- Ethnic identity
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
African American women -- Race identity
African American women -- Social conditions
African Americans in popular culture
Beauty, Personal -- Social aspects
Popular culture
Race relations
SUBJECT United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
Subject United States
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780813172194
0813172195
9780813137513
0813137519
9780813134802
0813134803
Other Titles Style and status