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Fifty years after Jamaican and Trinidadian independence, Imagining Caribbean Womanhood examines the links between beauty and politics in the Anglophone Caribbean, providing a first cultural history of Caribbean beauty competitions, spanning from Kingston to London. It traces the origins and transformation of female beauty contests in the British Caribbean from 1929 to 1970, through the development of cultural nationalism, race-conscious politics and decolonisation. The beauty contest, a seemingly marginal phenomenon, is used to illuminate the persistence of racial supremacy, the advance of consumer culture and the negotiation of race and nation through the idealised performance of cultured, modern beauty. Modern Caribbean femininity was intended to be politically functional but also commercially viable and subtly eroticised. The lively discussion surrounding beauty competitions, examined in this book, reveals that femininity was used to shape ideas about Caribbean modernity, citizenship, and political and economic freedom. This cultural history of Caribbean beauty competitions will be of value to scholarship on beauty, Caribbean studies, postcolonial studies, gender studies, 'race' and racism studies and studies of the body.

Ethnic attitudes --- Race awareness --- Beauty contests --- Attitude (Psychology) --- Ethnic relations --- Minorities --- Cultural awareness --- Awareness --- Ethnopsychology --- Beauty pageants --- Pageants, Beauty --- Contests --- History --- Political aspects --- Social aspects --- Anglophone Caribbean. --- Barbados. --- British Caribbean. --- Caribbean beauty contests. --- Carnival Queen. --- Claudia Jones. --- Jamaican racial democracy. --- London. --- Miss Ebony. --- Miss Jamaica. --- Miss Trinidad. --- TenTypes Model. --- West Indian Gazette. --- black beauty culture. --- creme de la creme. --- cultural revolution. --- radical feminism.

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Pageants, Parlors, and Pretty Women: Race and Beauty in the Twentieth-Century South

Civil rights movements --- Race awareness --- African American women --- History --- Social conditions --- Southern States --- Race relations --- Afro-American women --- Women, African American --- Women, Negro --- Beauty contests --- Beauty shops --- Beauty, Personal --- Cosmetics --- Human skin color --- Black race --- Women --- Awareness --- Ethnopsychology --- Ethnic attitudes --- Social aspects --- Psychological aspects --- Color --- Negro race --- Race --- Color of human beings --- Color of man --- Human beings --- Pigmentation of human skin --- Skin --- Skin color, Human --- Skin pigmentation, Human --- Beauty aids --- Complexion --- Make-up (Cosmetics) --- Makeup (Cosmetics) --- Costume --- Beauty culture --- Toilet preparations --- Beauty --- Grooming, Personal --- Grooming for women --- Personal beauty --- Personal grooming --- Toilet (Grooming) --- Hygiene --- Aesthetics industry --- Beauty parlors --- Beauty salons --- Beauty services industry --- Parlors, Beauty --- Salons, Beauty --- Service industries --- Beauty pageants --- Pageants, Beauty --- Contests