Ain't I a Beauty Queen?
Culture, Social Movements, and the Politics of Race
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 25 July 2002
- ISBN 9780195142679
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages208 pages
- Size 160x239x20 mm
- Weight 448 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 13 halftones 0
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Short description:
Analysing the transformation in beliefs and practices relating to black beauty in the 1960s and pre-Civil Rights Movement and later black beauty pageants, Ain't I A Beauty Queen? goes into beauty parlours, late-night political meetings, and college campus organisations to study how black women were symbols and participants in the reshaping of black racial identity.
MoreLong description:
Ain't I A Beauty Queen? is a study of black women as symbols, and as participants, in the reshaping of the meaning of black racial identity. The meanings and pracices of racial identity are continually reshaped as a result of the interplay of actions taken at the individual and institutional levels. In chapters that detail the history of pre-Civil Rights Movement black beauty pageants, later efforts to integrate beauty contests, and the transformation in beliefs and practices relating to black beauty in the 1960s, the book develops a model for understanding social processes of racial change. It places changing black hair practices and standards of beauty in historical context and shows the powerful role social movements have had in reshaping the texture of everyday life. The Civil Rights and Black Power Movements led a generation to question hair straightening and to establish a new standard of beauty that was summed up in the words "black is beautiful". Through oral history interviews with Civil Rights and Black Power Movement activists and ordinary women, the author documents the meaning of these changes in black women's lives.
The book is impeccably researched and written, pulling together a wide range of materials into a coherent and convincing argument. It should be read by anyone interested in social movements, cultural change, racial politics, gender, or the sociology of the body.
Table of Contents:
Ridicule and Celebration: Black Women as Symbols in the Rearticulation of Race
Contexts for the Emergence of Black is Beautiful
Ain't I a Beauty Queen?: Representing the Ideal Black Women
Standing (in Heels) For My People
How Black Became Popular: Social Movements and Racial Rearticulation
Yvonne's Wig: Gender and the Racialized Body
Pride and Shame: Black Women as Symbols of the "Middle Class"
The Appearance of Unity
An Ongoing Dialogue
