TY  - BOOK
AU  - Walker,Susannah
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - Style & status: selling beauty to African American women, 1920-1975 
AV  - E185.86 .W338 2007eb
U1  - 306.4/613 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Lexington
PB  - University Press of Kentucky
KW  - African American women
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Race identity
KW  - Beauty, Personal
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - Beauty culture
KW  - Popular culture
KW  - African Americans in popular culture
KW  - Race relations
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 beauty 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; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2011; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
UR  - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/strathmore/Doc?id=10495313
ER  -