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

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."--

Record details

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