Imagining Caribbean womanhood : race, nation and beauty contests, 1929-70 / Rochelle Rowe

Author: Rowe, Rochelle
Published: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2013.
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 199 pages) : illustrations

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Gender in history

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Introduction: Caribbean beauty competitions in context -- The early 'Miss Jamaica' competition: cultural revolution and feminist voices, 1929-50 -- Cleaning up Carnival: race, culture and power in the Trinidad 'Carnival Queen' beauty competition, 1946-59 -- Parading the cr̀eme del la cr̀eme': constructing the contest in Barbados, 1958-66 -- Fashioning 'Ebony Cinderellas' and brown icons: Jamaican beauty competitions and the myth of racial democracy, 1955-64 -- 'Colonisation in reverse': Claudia Jones, the West Indian Gazette and the 'Carnival Queen' beauty contest in London, 1959-64 -- Afterword: a Grenadian 'Miss World', 1970.

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9781781706534 (electronic bk.)
1781706530 (electronic bk.)
9781526111272
1526111276
9780719088674 (hardback)
0719088674 (hardback)

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 184-196) and index.

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