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Author: Blain Roberts
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469614200
Size: 39.68 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 2014
Category: History
Language: en
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Download PDF Pageants Parlors Pretty Women eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Pageants, Parlors, and Pretty Women: Race and Beauty in the Twentieth-Century South

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Author: Linda Przybyszewski
Publisher: Basic Books (AZ)
ISBN: 0465036716
Size: 44.25 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2014-04-29
Category: Design
Language: en
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Download PDF The Lost Art Of Dress eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. A prize-winning dressmaker and history professor discusses how modern women have lost the fashion sense and ability to professionally, appropriately and flatteringly and describes how the Dress Doctors from the first half of the twentieth century helped women look their best. 25,000 first printing.

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Author: Charles A. Gallagher
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
ISBN: 1440803463
Size: 70.33 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 2014-06-24
Category: Social Science
Language: en
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Download PDF Race And Racism In The United States An Encyclopedia Of The American Mosaic 4 Volumes eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. In the 21st century, it is easy for some students and readers to believe that racism is a thing of the past; in reality, old wounds have yet to heal, and new forms of racism are taking shape. Racism has played a role in American society since the founding of the nation, in spite of the words "all men are created equal" within the Declaration of Independence. This set is the largest and most complete of its kind, covering every facet of race relations in the United States while providing information in a user-friendly format that allows easy cross-referencing of related topics for efficient research and learning. The work serves as an accessible tool for high school researchers, provides important material for undergraduate students enrolled in a variety of humanities and social sciences courses, and is an outstanding ready reference for race scholars. The entries provide readers with comprehensive content supplemented by historical backgrounds, relevant examples from primary documents, and first-hand accounts. Information is presented to interest and appeal to readers but also to support critical inquiry and understanding. A fourth volume of related primary documents supplies additional reading and resources for research.

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Author: Dr Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 1409492370
Size: 68.13 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2012-12-28
Category: Social Science
Language: en
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Download PDF Decolonizing European Sociology eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Decolonizing European Sociology builds on the work challenging the androcentric, colonial and ethnocentric perspectives eminent in mainstream European sociology by identifying and describing the processes at work in its current critical transformation. Divided into sections organized around themes like modernity, border epistemology, migration and 'the South', this book considers the self-definition and basic concepts of social sciences through an assessment of the new theoretical developments, such as postcolonial theory and subaltern studies, and whether they can be described as the decolonization of the discipline. With contributions from a truly international team of leading social scientists, this volume constitutes a unique and tightly focused exploration of the challenges presented by the decolonization of the discipline of sociology.

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Book Detail:
Author: Julie A. Willett
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
ISBN: 0313359490
Size: 24.70 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2010
Category: Business & Economics
Language: en
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Download PDF The American Beauty Industry Encyclopedia eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. This is the first encyclopedia to focus exclusively on the many aspects of the American beauty industry, covering both its diverse origins and its global reach. * More than 100 entries cover many facets of the American beauty industry * Over 40 contributors provide a variety of perspectives * Some three dozen photographs capture various aspects of this pervasive industry * Includes a chronology and a selected bibliography

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Author: Dr Elizabeth Johnson
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 1409472876
Size: 71.92 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2013-07-28
Category: Social Science
Language: en
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Download PDF Resistance And Empowerment In Black Women S Hair Styling eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Elizabeth Johnson's Resistance and Empowerment in Black Women's Hair Styling develops the argument that one way Black women define themselves and each other, is by the way they style/groom their hair via endorsement by the media through advertisement, idealized identification of Black female celebrities, and encouragement by professional celebrity hair stylists who serve as change agents. As a result, hair becomes a physical manifestation of their self-identity, revealing a private and personal mindset. Her research answers the following questions: What is the relationship between Black females' choice of hairstyles/grooming and transmitted messages of aesthetics by the dominant culture through culturally specific magazines?; What role do the natural hair blogs/vlogs play as a change agent in encouraging or discouraging consumers grooming their hair in its natural state?; What impact does a globalized consumer market of Black hair care products have on Hispanic/Latinas and Bi-Racial women?; Are Black female Generation Y members more likely to receive backlash for failure to conform their hair to dominant standards in their hair adornment in the workplace? Johnson thus demonstrates that the major concern from messages sent to Black women about their hair is its impact on Black identity. Thus, the goal of Black women should be to break with hegemonic modes of seeing, thinking, and being for full liberation. This critical and deep consciousness will debunk the messages told to Black women that their kinky, frizzy, thick hair is undesirable, bad, unmanageable, and shackling.

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Book Detail:
Author: Stacy Alaimo
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253013607
Size: 57.90 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 2008-01-02
Category: Philosophy
Language: en
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Download PDF Material Feminisms eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Harnessing the energy of provocative theories generated by recent understandings of the human body, the natural world, and the material world, Material Feminisms presents an entirely new way for feminists to conceive of the question of materiality. In lively and timely essays, an international group of feminist thinkers challenges the assumptions and norms that have previously defined studies about the body. These wide-ranging essays grapple with topics such as the material reality of race, the significance of sexual difference, the impact of disability experience, and the complex interaction between nature and culture in traumatic events such as Hurricane Katrina. By insisting on the importance of materiality, this volume breaks new ground in philosophy, feminist theory, cultural studies, science studies, and other fields where the body and nature collide.

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Book Detail:
Author: Eileen M. Otis
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804778353
Size: 11.22 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 2011-12-07
Category: Social Science
Language: en
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Download PDF Markets And Bodies eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Insulated from the dust, noise, and crowds churning outside, China's luxury hotels are staging areas for the new economic and political landscape of the country. These hotels, along with other emerging service businesses, offer an important, new source of employment for millions of workers, but also bring to light levels of inequality that surpass most developed nations. Examining how gender enables the globalization of markets and how emerging forms of service labor are changing women's social status in China, Markets and Bodies reveals the forms of social inequality produced by shifts in the economy. No longer working for the common good as defined by the socialist state, service workers are catering to the individual desires of consumers. This economic transition ultimately affords a unique opportunity to investigate the possibilities and current limits for better working conditions for the young women who are enabling the development of capitalism in China.

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Book Detail:
Author: Margaret L. Andersen
Publisher: Cengage Learning
ISBN: 1285965663
Size: 51.32 MB
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Release Date: 2014-01-01
Category: Science
Language: en
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Download PDF Sociology The Essentials eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. SOCIOLOGY: THE ESSENTIALS, Eighth Edition, uses the theme of debunking myths to look behind the facades of everyday life, encourage you to question common assumptions, and help you better understand how society is constructed and sustained. This thorough yet streamlined text provides exceptional coverage of diversity, including social factors such as age, religion, sexual orientation, and region of residence, in addition to race, ethnicity, class, and gender. Updated with coverage of the latest findings, trends, and themes, this new edition’s reader-friendly presentation teaches you the concepts, methods, and research that will sharpen your “sociological imagination” and help you view the world from a different perspective. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

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Book Detail:
Author: Diego A. von Vacano
Publisher: OUP USA
ISBN: 0199746664
Size: 62.65 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2012-01-18
Category: History
Language: en
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Download PDF The Color Of Citizenship eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Why is race, a superficial human characteristic, such a potent political phenomenon? Looking to the way that race has been conceived through the tradition of Latin American political thought, The Color of Citizenship examines the centrality of race in the making of modern citizenship. It posits race as synthetic, dynamic, and fluid -- a concept that will have methodological, historical, and normative value for understanding race in other diverse societies.

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Book Detail:
Author: Illona Linthwaite
Publisher: Gramercy
ISBN:
Size: 45.47 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 1993
Category: Poetry
Language: en
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Download PDF Ain T I A Woman eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Spanning the centuries from Sappho's Greece to tenth-century Japan, from nineteenth-century Chile to Zindziswa Mandela's twentieth-century South Africa, the voices of these women poets express themes of love, injustice, motherhood, and loss, and the oppressions of race and sex. The sequence of the poems moves from youth to old age, and they bear witness to the triumphs as well as the pain and frustration of women in many times and in many places. Among the many poets whose work is included are Anna Akhmatova, Maya Angelou, Judith Kazantzis, Gabriela Mistral, Marge Piercy, Irina Ratushinskaya and Alice Walker. Illona Linthwaite began gathering this collection several years ago, initially for a theatrical performance. Here, in this unique exchange between women of many races, affirming their differences and what they have in common, are more than 150 poems which assert the black abolitionist Sojourner Truth's challenge, "Ain't I a Woman!" In addition to the poems, there are biographies of the 91 contributors.

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Book Detail:
Author: Maxine Leeds Craig
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198032557
Size: 62.99 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 2002-06-20
Category: History
Language: en
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Download PDF Ain T I A Beauty Queen eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. "Black is Beautiful!" The words were the exuberant rallying cry of a generation of black women who threw away their straightening combs and adopted a proud new style they called the Afro. The Afro, as worn most famously by Angela Davis, became a veritable icon of the Sixties. Although the new beauty standards seemed to arise overnight, they actually had deep roots within black communities. Tracing her story to 1891, when a black newspaper launched a contest to find the most beautiful woman of the race, Maxine Leeds Craig documents how black women have negotiated the intersection of race, class, politics, and personal appearance in their lives. Craig takes the reader from beauty parlors in the 1940s to late night political meetings in the 1960s to demonstrate the powerful influence of social movements on the experience of daily life. With sources ranging from oral histories of Civil Rights and Black Power Movement activists and men and women who stood on the sidelines to black popular magazines and the black movement press, Ain't I a Beauty Queen? will fascinate those interested in beauty culture, gender, class, and the dynamics of race and social movements.

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Book Detail:
Author: Amy C. Steinbugler
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019974355X
Size: 75.70 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2012-09-06
Category: Social Science
Language: en
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Download PDF Beyond Loving eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Beyond Loving provides a critical examination of interracial intimacy in the beginning decades of the twenty-first century-an era rife with racial contradictions, where interracial relationships are increasingly seen as symbols of racial progress even as old stereotypes about illicit eroticism persist. Drawing on extensive qualitative research, Amy Steinbugler examines the racial dynamics of everyday life for lesbian, gay, and heterosexual Black/White couples. She disputes the notion that interracial partners are enlightened subjects who have somehow managed to "get beyond" race. Instead, for many partners, interracial intimacy represents not the end, but the beginning of a sustained process of negotiating racial differences. Her research reveals the ordinary challenges that partners frequently face and the myriad ways that race shapes their interactions with each other as well as with neighbors, family members, co-workers and strangers. Steinbugler analyzes the everyday actions and strategies through which individuals maintain close relationships in a society with deeply-rooted racial inequalities-what she calls "racework." Beyond Loving reveals interracial intimacy as an ongoing process rather than a singular accomplishment. This analytic shift helps us reach a new understanding of how race "works"-not just in intimate spheres, but across all facets of contemporary social life.

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Book Detail:
Author: Tia Williams
Publisher: Jump At The Sun
ISBN: 9781423104063
Size: 17.63 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Release Date: 2007-04-02
Category: Juvenile Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF It Chicks eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. What they want is fame. All they have is drama. Welcome to Louis B. Armstrong, New York City’s most prestigious performing arts school, where the gifted, wanna-be starlets, and It Chicks are all on the rise. But when rehearsals give way to hot and heavy after-school sessions away from the barre and without the mic, the real drama begins. Meet the hottest cast in town: Tangie, the Dreamer. Skye the Drama Queen. Eden the Bombshell. Trey the Bad Boy. CJ the Thug with the Heart of Gold. Izzy the Wild Child. Regina the Silent Threat. And the Entourage: Marisol, Kamillah, Blackadocious, Vineet, and Lyle. They’re all playing the fame game and will do whatever it takes to nail it.

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Book Detail:
Author: M. Cynthia Oliver
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1604733489
Size: 10.27 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Release Date: 2009
Category: Beauty contestants
Language: en
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Download PDF Queen Of The Virgins eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Beauty pageants are wildly popular in the U.S. Virgin Islands, outnumbering any other single performance event and capturing the attention of the local people from toddlers to seniors. Local beauty contests provide women opportunities to demonstrate talent, style, the values of black womanhood, and the territory's social mores. Queen of the Virgins: Pageantry and Black Womanhood in the Caribbean is a comprehensive look at the centuries-old tradition of these expressions in the Virgin Islands. M. Cynthia Oliver maps the trajectory of pageantry from its colonial precursors at tea meetings, dance dramas, and street festival parades to its current incarnation as the beauty pageant or queen show. For the author, pageantry becomes a lens through which to view the region's understanding of gender, race, sexuality, class, and colonial power. Focusing on the queen show, Oliver reveals its twin roots in slave celebrations that parodied white colonial behavior and created creole royal rituals and celebrations heavily influenced by Africanist aesthetics. Using the U.S. Virgin Islands as an intriguing case study, Oliver shows how the pageant continues to reflect, reinforce, and challenge Caribbean cultural values concerning femininity. Queen of the Virgins examines the journey of the black woman from degraded body to vaunted queen and how this progression is marked by social unrest, growing middle-class sensibilities, and contemporary sexual and gender politics.

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Book Detail:
Author: Lori Aurelia Williams
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
ISBN: 1429962208
Size: 45.38 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2010-09-28
Category: Young Adult Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF Maxine Banks Is Getting Married eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. When seventeen-year-old Maxine Banks from Houston, Texas convinces her boyfriend to marry her, she finds out that marriage isn't quite what she had in mind.

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Size: 49.84 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Release Date: 1916
Category: Architecture, Domestic
Language: en
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Download PDF House Beautiful eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad.

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Book Detail:
Author: Bell Hooks
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780896087699
Size: 71.94 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 2007-09-01
Category:
Language: en
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Download PDF Ain T I A Woman eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. " Ain't I a Woman : Black Women and Feminism is among America's most influential works. Prolific, outspoken, and fearless."- The Village Voice  "This book is a classic. It . . . should be read by anyone who takes feminism seriously."- Sojourner  "[ Ain't I a Woman ] should be widely read, thoughtfully considered, discussed, and finally acclaimed for the real enlightenment it offers for social change."- Library Journal  "One of the twenty most influential women's books of the last twenty years."- Publishers Weekly  "I met a young sister who was a feminist, and she gave me a book called Ain't I a Woman by a talented, beautiful sister named bell hooks-and it changed my life. It changed my whole perspective of myself as a woman."-Jada Pinkett-Smith  At nineteen, bell hooks began writing the book that forever changed the course of feminist thought. Ain't I a Woman remains a classic analysis of the impact of sexism on black women during slavery, the historic devaluation of black womanhood, black male sexism, racism within the women's movement, and black women's involvement with feminism.  bell hooks is the author of numerous critically acclaimed and influential books on the politics of race, gender, class, and culture. The Atlantic Monthly celebrates her as one of our nation's leading public intellectuals .

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Book Detail:
Author: Natalie Baszile
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698151542
Size: 73.59 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 2014-02-06
Category: Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF Queen Sugar eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. The inspiration for the acclaimed OWN TV series produced by Oprah Winfrey and Ava DuVernay "Queen Sugar is a page-turning, heart-breaking novel of the new south, where the past is never truly past, but the future is a hot, bright promise. This is a story of family and the healing power of our connections—to each other, and to the rich land beneath our feet." —Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage Readers, booksellers, and critics alike are embracing Queen Sugar and cheering for its heroine, Charley Bordelon, an African American woman and single mother struggling to build a new life amid the complexities of the contemporary South. When Charley unexpectedly inherits eight hundred acres of sugarcane land, she and her eleven-year-old daughter say goodbye to smoggy Los Angeles and head to Louisiana. She soon learns, however, that cane farming is always going to be a white man’s business. As the sweltering summer unfolds, Charley struggles to balance the overwhelming challenges of a farm in decline with the demands of family and the startling desires of her own heart.

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Book Detail:
Author: Ysaye M. Barnwell
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780152018252
Size: 60.29 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 1998
Category: African Americans
Language: en
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Download PDF No Mirrors In My Nana S House eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. A girl discovers the beauty in herself by looking into her Nana's eyes.

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