TY - BOOK AU - Craig,Maxine Leeds TI - Ain't I a beauty queen?: black women, beauty, and the politics of race SN - 9780199849345 (ebook) : AV - HQ1220.U5 U1 - 305.48896073 22 PY - 2002/// CY - New York, Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - Beauty, Personal KW - United States KW - History KW - 20th century KW - African American women KW - Health and hygiene KW - Social conditions KW - Beauty contests N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - 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 UR - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/lords.parliament.uk?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195152623.001.0001 ER -