Pageants, Parlors, & Pretty Women
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Pageants, Parlors, and Pretty Women: Race and Beauty in the Twentieth-Century South
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Summary: Blain Roberts walks readers through the development of beauty practices and culture in the American South during the twentieth century. She addresses the ways in which beauty culture impacted and developed among Black and White Southern women differently, and she explores what Southern beauty culture can tell us about racism, patriarchy, and class structure.
