Title Pageants, parlors, and pretty women : race and beauty in the twentieth-century South / Blain Roberts.

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Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2014]

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Description	1 online resource
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Introduction -- Making up white Southern womanhood : the democratization of the Southern lady -- Shop talk : ritual and space in the Southern black beauty parlor -- Homegrown royalty : white beauty contests in the rural South -- Thrones of their own : body and beauty contests among Southern black women -- Bodies politic : beauty and racial crisis in the civil rights era -- Conclusion.
Summary	Pageants, Parlors, and Pretty Women: Race and Beauty in the Twentieth-Century South.
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Subject	Civil rights movements -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.
	Civil rights movements.
	Southern States.
	History.
Chronological Term	20th century
Subject	Southern States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
	Race relations.
	Race awareness -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.
	Race awareness.
	African American women -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
	African American women.
	Social conditions.
	Black race -- Color -- Social aspects -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.
	Black race -- Color -- Social aspects.
	Black race -- Color.
	Human skin color -- Southern States -- Psychological aspects -- History -- 20th century.
	Human skin color.
	Psychological aspects.
	Cosmetics -- Social aspects -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.
	Cosmetics.
	Social aspects.
	Beauty, Personal -- Social aspects -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.
	Beauty, Personal -- Social aspects.
	Beauty, Personal.
	Beauty shops -- Social aspects -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.
	Beauty shops -- Social aspects.
	Beauty shops.
	Beauty contests -- Social aspects -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.
	Beauty contests.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Roberts, Blain. Pageants, parlors, and pretty women 9781469614205 (DLC) 2013035602 (OCoLC)857897931
ISBN	9781469615578 (electronic book)
	1469615576 (electronic book)
	9781469614212 (electronic book)
	1469614219 (electronic book)
	9781469614205
	1469614200

Title Pageants, parlors, and pretty women : race and beauty in the twentieth-century South / Blain Roberts.

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