Pageants, Parlors, and Pretty Women: Race and Beauty in the Twentieth-Century South by Blain Roberts

Pageants, Parlors, and Pretty Women: Race and Beauty in the Twentieth-Century South

Blain Roberts

384 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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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 ...

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