| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 250 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-237) and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
Examines twentieth-century commercial beauty culture in terms of race and gender. This work demonstrates that while black women's beauty culture often mirrored that of white women in important ways, it remained distinctive because it explicitly articulated racial politics in the United States. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
African American women -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
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African American women -- Social conditions. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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African American women -- Race identity.
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African American women -- Race identity. |
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African American women. |
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Beauty, Personal -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Beauty, Personal -- Social aspects. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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Beauty, Personal. |
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Beauty, Personal -- Economic aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Beauty culture -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Beauty culture. |
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Social aspects. |
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Beauty culture -- Economic aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Popular culture. |
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African Americans in popular culture -- History -- 20th century.
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African Americans in popular culture. |
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United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
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Race relations. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Style and status |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Walker, Susannah, 1970- Style & status. Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, ©2007 9780813124339 0813124336 (DLC) 2006033478 (OCoLC)73742173 |
| ISBN |
9780813172194 (electronic book) |
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0813172195 (electronic book) |
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9780813137513 (electronic book) |
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0813137519 (electronic book) |
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0813124336 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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9780813124339 |
