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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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Table of Contents:

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.