Style and Status: Selling Beauty to African American Women, 1920-1975 by Walker, Susannah

Style and Status: Selling Beauty to African American Women, 1920-1975 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780813124339)

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Style and Status: Selling Beauty to African American Women, 1920-1975 by Walker, Susannah

Style and Status: Selling Beauty to African American Women, 1920-1975

$35.00
Style and Status: Selling Beauty to African American Women, 1920-1975 by Walker, Susannah

Style and Status: Selling Beauty to African American Women, 1920-1975

$35.00
Format: Hardcover
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Between the 1920s and the 1970s, American economic culture began to emphasize the value of consumption over production. At the same time, the rise of new mass media such as radio and television facilitated the advertising and sales of consumer goods on an unprecedented scale. In Style and Status: Selling Beauty to African American Women, 1920-1975, Susannah Walker analyzes an often-overlooked facet of twentieth-century consumer society as she explores the political, social, and racial implicatio

Author: Susannah Walker
ISBN-10: 0813124336
ISBN-13: 9780813124339
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Language: English
Published: 02/23/2007
Pages: 264
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.08lbs
Size: 8.92h x 6.36w x 0.93d
By Susannah Walker
By Susannah Walker
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Susannah Walker is assistant professor of history at Virginia Wesleyan College.

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