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Title Style & status [electronic resource] : selling beauty to African American women, 1920-1975 / Susannah Walker.
Author Walker, Susannah, 1970-
Publication Info. Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, c2007.

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 Libraries Electronic Books  ELECTRONIC BOOK-eBook Academic Collection - North America    AVAIL. ONLINE
Description xiii, 250 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Series eBook Academic Collection - North America
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-237) and index.
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 beauty 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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Subject African American women -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
African American women -- Race identity.
Beauty, Personal -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Beauty, Personal -- Economic aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Beauty culture -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Beauty culture -- Economic aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
African Americans in popular culture -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
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ISBN 9780813124339 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0813124336 (hardcover : alk. paper)
OCLC # sseb_ssj0000253126
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