Ain't I A Beauty Queen?
Subtitle: Black Women, Beauty, and the Politics of Race
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: May 24, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9780195142679
Subjects: Black studies; Women's studies; Social Science; Gender Studies; Sociology; USA; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; United States - General; Women's Studies - General; History / United States / General; African American women; African Americans; Beauty contests; Race identity; Social aspects; Social conditions; United States
First sentence: In September 1968, as a panel of beauty experts prepared to select the forty-eight consecutive white Miss America, two protests were under way.