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Pageants, Parlors, and Pretty Women: Race and Beauty in the Twentieth-Century South Blain Roberts
Pageants, Parlors, and Pretty Women: Race and Beauty in the Twentieth-Century South
Blain Roberts
From the South's pageant queens to the importance of beauty parlors to African American communities, it is easy to see the ways beauty is enmeshed in southern culture. But as Blain Roberts shows in this incisive work, the pursuit of beauty in the South was linked to the tumultuous racial divides of the region.
384 pages, 43 halftones
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | August 1, 2016 |
| ISBN13 | 9781469629865 |
| Publishers | The University of North Carolina Press |
| Pages | 384 |
| Dimensions | 235 × 157 × 26 mm · 584 g |