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

Published Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 199 pages) : illustrations Series Gender in history Gender in history. Contents 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 184-196) and index Notes Print version record Subject Beauty contests -- Social aspects -- West Indies, British -- History -- 20th century Beauty contests -- Political aspects -- West Indies, British -- History -- 20th century Race awareness -- West Indies, British -- History -- 20th century Ethnic attitudes -- West Indies, British -- History -- 20th century PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference. HISTORY -- Asia -- India & South Asia. Ethnic attitudes Race awareness Performing Arts. West Indies -- British West Indies Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781781706534 1781706530 9781526111272 1526111276

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