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Article: Selling Beauty to African American Women, 1920-1975.(Book review)
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- Journal of Social History
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- September 22, 2008
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Style & Status: Selling Beauty to African American Women, 1920-1975. By Susannah Walker (Lexington, Kentucky: University of Kentucky Press, 2007. xiii plus 250 pp. $40.00).
Susannah Walker's book is a solid social history that explores the trajectories, themes, and tensions of twentieth-century African American women's beauty culture. Walker has effectively mined numerous sources including industry trade journals, memoirs, newspapers such as the Pittsburgh Courier, Chicago Defender, and New York Amsterdam News, periodicals such as Half-Century Magazine, Ebony, and Jet, and company records and publications such as those of publisher Claude Barnett and beauty ...