Black Beauties : : African American Pageant Queens in the Segregated South
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"Beauty & the black freedom struggle"--Back cover.
Foreword / Ericka Dunlap -- "We bring you beauty in bronze": Early African American pageant tradition and the revision of a limited beauty standard -- "They didn't have many queens my color": Colorism, community and growing up during Jim Crow -- "There was a virtual epidemic of negro homecoming queens": Brewing unrest and pageants as student activism in the Civil Rights Movement -- "This is better than being MIss America": African Americans in mainstream contests and the emergence of the Miss Black America Pageant during the Black Power Era -- "Stepping out into finer womanhood": Football classics, coronations and a local civil rights legend training queens in respectability and representation -- "Black beauty wins every year": Miss Black USA's founder and the lasting legacy of African American pageants.
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PUBLISHED
Charleston, SC : The History Press, 2020.
Year Published: 2020
Description: 142 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781467144827
1467144827
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Dunlap, Ericka.
SUBJECTS
Beauty contests -- Southern States -- History.
Beauty contestants -- Southern States.
African American women -- Social life and customs.
African American women college students -- Social life and customs.
Racism in popular culture -- Southern States.