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From the South's pageant queens to the importance of beauty parlors to African American communities, it is easy to see the ways beauty is enmeshed in southern culture. But as Blain Roberts shows in this incisive work, the pursuit of beauty in the South was linked to the tumultuous racial divides of the region.

Pageants Parlors and Pretty Women Race and

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      Publisher: MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina
      Publication Date: 7/30/2016 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9781469629865, 978-1469629865
      ISBN10: 1469629860

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      Book Synopsis
      From the South's pageant queens to the importance of beauty parlors to African American communities, it is easy to see the ways beauty is enmeshed in southern culture. But as Blain Roberts shows in this incisive work, the pursuit of beauty in the South was linked to the tumultuous racial divides of the region.

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