Rochelle Rowe

Imagining Caribbean womanhood

Race, nation and beauty competitions, 1929-70

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examines the links between beauty and politics in the Anglophone Caribbean

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. April 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 322g
• ISBN-13: 9781526150332
• ISBN-10: 1526150336
• Artikelnr.: 59257316

Autorenporträt

Rochelle Rowe is Academic Development Lead in Organisational Development at University College London

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Caribbean beauty competitions in context 1. The early 'Miss Jamaica' competition: cultural revolution and feminist voices
1929-1950 2. Cleaning up carnival: race
culture and power in the Trinidad 'Carnival Queen' beauty competition
1946-1959 3. Parading the 'crème de la crème': constructing the contest in Barbados
1958-1966 4. Fashioning 'Ebony Cinderellas' and brown icons: Jamaican beauty competitions and the myth of racial democracy
1955-1964 5. 'Colonisation in reverse': Claudia Jones
the West Indian Gazette and the 'Carnival Queen' contest in London
1959-1964 Afterword: a Grenadian 'Miss World'
1970 Bibliography Index