Ain't I a beauty queen? : black women, beauty, and the politics of race / / Maxine Leeds Craig
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| Autore: |
Craig Maxine Leeds
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| Titolo: |
Ain't I a beauty queen? : black women, beauty, and the politics of race / / Maxine Leeds Craig
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| Pubblicazione: | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2002 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (209 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 305.48/896/073 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-193) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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; |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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, |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Ain't I a beauty queen |
| ISBN: | 0-19-988167-7 |
| 1-60256-671-2 | |
| 1-280-65529-1 | |
| 0-19-515262-X | |
| 0-19-803255-2 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910814432403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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