Ain't I a beauty queen? : black women, beauty, and the politics of race / Maxine Leeds Craig.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Craig, Maxine Leeds.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Beauty contests--Social aspects--United States.

Beauty contests.

African American women--Social conditions.

African American women.

African Americans--Race identity.

African Americans.

Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)--United States.

Feminine beauty (Aesthetics).

Civil rights movements--United States.

Civil rights movements.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (209 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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,

Contents:

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;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-193) and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

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ISBN:

0-19-988167-7

1-60256-671-2

1-280-65529-1

0-19-515262-X

0-19-803255-2

OCLC:

475955755