Ain't I a Beauty Queen?: Black Women, Beauty, and the Politics of Race

Oxford University Press USA (2002)
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The meanings and practices of racial identity are continually reshaped as a result of the interplay of actions taken at the individual and institutional levels. This text is a study of African American women as symbols, and as participants, in the reshaping of the meaning of African American racial identity.

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