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Beauty in a box : detangling the roots of Canada's black beauty culture Cover Image Book Book

Beauty in a box : detangling the roots of Canada's black beauty culture / Cheryl Thompson.

Thompson, Cheryl, 1977- (author.).

Summary:

"It's about black beauty culture in North America from an interdisciplinary perspective that encompasses many fields: history, race and cultural theory, consumer culture theory, media studies, diasporic art history, black feminism, visual culture, film studies, and political economy."-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781771123587
  • ISBN: 1771123583
  • Physical Description: 311 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 23 cm
  • Publisher: Waterloo, Ontario : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, [2019].

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-303) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
African Canadian newspapers and early black beauty culture, 1914-1945 -- From Ebony's "brownskin" to "black is beautiful" in the News Observer, 1946-1969 -- Black beauty culture in the pages of Contrast and Share: local beauty salons, department stores, and drugstores in the 1970s and 1980s -- Global conglomerates take over black beauty culture: the ethically ambiguous "multicultural" 1990s and 2000s -- The politics of black hair in the twenty-first century.
Additional Physical Form available Note:
Issued also in electronic format.

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Subject: Beauty, Personal > Canada > History > 20th century.
Beauty, Personal > Social aspects > Canada > History > 20th century.
Beauty culture > Social aspects > Canada > History > 20th century.
African American women > Race identity.
African Americans > Race identity.
Hair > Social aspects > United States.
Beauty, Personal > United States.
Women, Black > Health and hygiene > Canada > History > 20th century.
Women, Black > Canada > Social conditions > 20th century.
Black Canadian women > Health and hygiene > History > 20th century.
Black Canadian women > Social conditions > 20th century.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Camosun College Library.

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Lansdowne Library HQ 1220 C3 T46 2019 (Text) 26040003387681 Main Collection Volume hold Available -
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Introduction 1(34)
Chapter 1 African Canadian Newspapers and Early Black Beauty Culture, 1914--1945
35(34)
Chapter 2 From Ebony's "Brownskin" to "Black Is Beautiful" in the News Observer, 1946--1969
69(52)
Chapter 3 Black Beauty Culture in the Pages of Contrast and Share: Local Beauty Salons, Department Stores, and Drugstores in the 1970s and 1980s
121(44)
Chapter 4 Global Conglomerates Take Over Black Beauty Culture: The Ethnically Ambiguous, "Multicultural" 1990s and 2000s
165(32)
Chapter 5 The Politics of Black Hair in the Twenty-First Century
197(46)
Conclusion 243(18)
Notes 261(30)
Selected Bibliography 291(14)
Index 305

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