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Selling Beauty to African American Women, 1920-1975
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In Style and Status, Susannah Walker examines twentieth-century commercial beauty culture in terms of race and gender. She demonstrates that while black women's beauty culture often mirrored that of white women in important ways, it remained distinctive because it explicitly articulated racial politics in the United States. African American women confronted daily the tension between the idea that beautifying themselves according to modern standards enhanced their success and the idea that doing so meant capitulating to a white beauty ideal that excluded and denigrated them. That confrontation not only reflected race and gender politics, but it helped fuel the struggle for black equality during the 1960s and 1970s. Walker examines the role of African American consumer culture and draws connections between black women's racial identity, African American notions of femininity, and social and political consciousness.

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Susannah Walker is assistant professor of history at Virginia Wesleyan College.
Release date Australia
February 23rd, 2007
Audience
  • Undergraduate
Country of Publication
United States
Illustrations
photos
Imprint
The University Press of Kentucky
Pages
264
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky
Dimensions
152x229x19
ISBN-13
9780813124339
Product ID
3892912

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