Pageants, Parlors, and Pretty Women: Race and Beauty in the Twentieth-Century South - Blain Roberts - Bøker - The University of North Carolina Press - 9781469629865 - 30. juli 2016
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Pageants, Parlors, and Pretty Women: Race and Beauty in the Twentieth-Century South

Blain Roberts

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Pageants, Parlors, and Pretty Women: Race and Beauty in the Twentieth-Century South

From the South's pageant queens to the importance of beauty parlors to African American communities, it is easy to see the ways beauty is enmeshed in southern culture. But as Blain Roberts shows in this incisive work, the pursuit of beauty in the South was linked to the tumultuous racial divides of the region.


384 pages, 43 halftones

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Utgitt 30. juli 2016
ISBN13 9781469629865
Utgivere The University of North Carolina Press
Antall sider 384
Mål 235 × 157 × 26 mm   ·   584 g