Style & Status : : Selling Beauty to African American Women, 1920-1975
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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 neauty 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.
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PUBLISHED
Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, c2007.
Year Published: 2007
Description: xiii, 250 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780813124339 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0813124336 (hardcover : alk. paper)
SUBJECTS
African American women -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
African American women -- Race identity.
Beauty, Personal -- History -- 20th century.
Beauty, Personal -- History -- 20th century.
Beauty culture -- History -- 20th century.
Beauty culture -- History -- 20th century.
Popular culture -- History -- 20th century.
African Americans in popular culture -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- History -- 20th century.