03408nam 22007094a 450 991079226140332120230207233216.00-19-988167-71-60256-671-21-280-65529-10-19-515262-X0-19-803255-2(CKB)2560000000294362(EBL)241248(OCoLC)475955755(SSID)ssj0000100640(PQKBManifestationID)11111464(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000100640(PQKBWorkID)10037675(PQKB)10797152(StDuBDS)EDZ0000023156(MiAaPQ)EBC241248(Au-PeEL)EBL241248(CaPaEBR)ebr10084766(CaONFJC)MIL65529(MiAaPQ)EBC7033509(Au-PeEL)EBL7033509(EXLCZ)99256000000029436220010910d2002 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrAin't I a beauty queen?[electronic resource] black women, beauty, and the politics of race /Maxine Leeds CraigOxford ;New York Oxford University Press20021 online resource (209 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-514267-5 0-19-984934-X Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-193) and index.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;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 actually had deep roots within black communities. Tracing her story to 1891, when a black newspaper launched a contest to find the most beautiful woman of the race, Maxine Leeds Craig documents how black women have negotiated the intersection of race, class,Beauty contestsSocial aspectsUnited StatesAfrican American womenSocial conditionsAfrican AmericansRace identityFeminine beauty (Aesthetics)United StatesCivil rights movementsUnited StatesBeauty contestsSocial aspectsAfrican American womenSocial conditions.African AmericansRace identity.Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)Civil rights movements305.48/896/073Craig Maxine Leeds1462229MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910792261403321Ain't I a beauty queen3671118UNINA