Beauty in a Box

Detangling the Roots of Canada's Black Beauty Culture

Cheryl Thompson (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

318 Seiten

2019
Wilfrid Laurier University Press (Verlag)
978-1-77112-358-7 (ISBN)

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One of the first transnational, feminist studies of Canada's black beauty culture and the role that media, retail, and consumers have played in its development, Beauty in a Box widens our understanding of the politics of black hair.The book analyzes advertisements and articles from media - newspapers, advertisements, television, and other sources - that focus on black communities in Halifax, Montreal, Toronto, and Calgary. The author explains the role local black community media has played in the promotion of African American-owned beauty products; how the segmentation of beauty culture (i.e., the sale of black beauty products on store shelves labelled "ethnic hair care") occurred in Canada; and how black beauty culture, which was generally seen as a small niche market before the 1970s, entered Canada's mainstream by way of department stores, drugstores, and big-box retailers.

Beauty in a Box uses an interdisciplinary framework, engaging with African American history, critical race and cultural theory, consumer culture theory, media studies, diasporic art history, black feminism, visual culture, film studies, and political economy to explore the history of black beauty culture in both Canada and the United States.

Cheryl Thompson is an Assistant Professor in the School of Creative Industries, Faculty of Communication and Design at Ryerson University. She previously held a Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship (2016-2018) at the University of Toronto. She earned her PhD in Communication Studies from McGill University. Dr. Thompson was born and raised in Toronto.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	17.01.2019
Verlagsort	Waterloo, Ontario
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	530 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Schönheit / Kosmetik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-77112-358-3 / 1771123583
ISBN-13	978-1-77112-358-7 / 9781771123587
Zustand	Neuware