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Autore |
Craig Maxine Leeds |
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Titolo |
Ain't I a beauty queen? [[electronic resource] ] : black women, beauty, and the politics of race / / Maxine Leeds Craig |
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Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2002 |
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ISBN |
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0-19-988167-7 |
1-60256-671-2 |
1-280-65529-1 |
0-19-515262-X |
0-19-803255-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (209 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Beauty contests - Social aspects - United States |
African American women - Social conditions |
African Americans - Race identity |
Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) - United States |
Civil rights movements - United States |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-193) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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CONTENTS; ONE: Ridicule and Celebration: Black Women as Symbols in the Rearticulation of Race; TWO: Contexts for the Emergence of "Black Is Beautiful,""; THREE: Ain't I a Beauty Queen? Representing the Ideal Black Woman; FOUR: Standing (in Heels) for My People; FIVE: How Black Became Popular: Social Movements and Racial Rearticulation; SIX: Yvonne's Wig: Gender and the Racialized Body; SEVEN: Pride and Shame: Black Women as Symbols of the "Middle Class,"; EIGHT: The Appearance of Unity; NINE: An Ongoing Dialogue; NOTES; SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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