Style & status [electronic resource] : selling beauty to African American women, 1920-1975 / Susannah Walker.
Publication details: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, c2007.Description: xiii, 250 p. : illOther title:- Style and status
- African American women -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- African American women -- Race identity
- Beauty, Personal -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Beauty, Personal -- Economic aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Beauty culture -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Beauty culture -- Economic aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- African Americans in popular culture -- History -- 20th century
- United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
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- E185.86 .W338 2007eb
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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.
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