Style & status : selling beauty to African American women, 1920-1975 / Susannah Walker.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Walker, Susannah, 1970-
Language:English
Published: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, [2007], ©2007.
Subjects:
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.
Physical Description:xiii, 250 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Variant Title:
Style and status.
Format: Book
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.