Cheryl Thompson

Beauty in a Box

Detangling the Roots of Canada's Black Beauty Culture

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Produktbeschreibung

Beauty in a Box explores the history of black beauty culture in Canada (its inventors, distribution networks, media, and retail end-points), and its similarities to, and departures from, African American beauty culture. It also traces media constructions of race that have circulated transnationally between Canada and the United States.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9781771123587
• ISBN-10: 1771123583
• Artikelnr.: 49217699

Autorenporträt

Cheryl Thompson has a Ph.D. in Communication Studies from McGill University. She is a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow (2016-2018) at the University of Toronto, where she teaches courses on visual culture, North American cultural history, and promotional culture. She was born and raised in Toronto.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Introduction
1. African Canadian Newspapers and Early Black Beauty Culture, 1914-1945
2. From Ebony's "Brownskin" to "Black Is Beautiful" in the News Observer,
1946-1969
3. Black Beauty Culture in the Pages of Contrast and Share: Local Beauty
Salons, Department Stores, and Drugstores in the 1970s and 80s
4. Global Conglomerates Take Over Black Beauty Culture: The Ethnically
Ambiguous "Multicultural" 1990s
5. The Politics of Black Hair in the Twenty-first Century
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index