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Style & status : selling beauty to African American women, 1920-1975 /

Main Author: Walker, Susannah, 1970-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, ©2007.
Subjects:
African American women > Social conditions > 20th century.
African American women > Race identity.
Beauty, Personal > Social aspects > 20th century. > United States > History
Beauty, Personal > Economic aspects > 20th century. > United States > History
Beauty culture > Social aspects > 20th century. > United States > History
Beauty culture > Economic aspects > 20th century. > United States > History
Popular culture > History > 20th century. > United States
African Americans in popular culture > History > 20th century.
History.
Social Science.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
United States > Race relations > 20th century. > History
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505 0 |a 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. 
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