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Ain't I a Beauty Queen?: Black Women, Beauty, and the Politics of Race Paperback - 2002
by Craig, Maxine Leeds
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- Title Ain't I a Beauty Queen?: Black Women, Beauty, and the Politics of Race
- Author Craig, Maxine Leeds
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: First
- Condition Used:Good
- Pages 208
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Date 2002-06-20
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # DADAX019515262X
- ISBN 9780195152623 / 019515262X
- Weight 0.73 lbs (0.33 kg)
- Dimensions 9.24 x 6.24 x 0.63 in (23.47 x 15.85 x 1.60 cm)
- Reading level 1410
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Themes
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects African Americans - Race identity, African American women - Social conditions
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001051007
- Dewey Decimal Code 305.488
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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 theintersection of race, class, politics, and personal appearance in their lives. Craig takes the reader from beauty parlors in the 1940s to late night political meetings in the 1960s to demonstrate the powerful influence of social movements on the experience of daily lifev
First line
In September 1968, as a panel of beauty experts prepared to select the forty-eight consecutive white Miss America, two protests were under way.