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1 online resource (224 pages): illustrations

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Series

Project MUSE EBA.

Contents

Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Scattered Pages: Magazines, Sex, and the Culture of Migration; Chapter 2: Refashioning Rape: Ringwood's Afro-American Journal of Fashion; Chapter 3: To Make a Lady Black and Bid Her Sing: Clothes, Class, and Color; Chapter 4: "Colored Faces Looking Out of Fashion Plates. Well!": Twentieth-Century Fashion, Migration, and Urbanization; Chapter 5: No Place Like Home: Domesticity, Domestic Work, and Consumerism; Chapter 6: Urban Confessions and Tan Fantasies: The Commodification of Marriage and Sexual Desire in African American Magazine Fiction.

Chapter 7: But Is It Black and Female?: Essence, O, and American Magazine PublishingNotes; Selected Bibliography; Index; About the Author.

Summary

Beginning in the late nineteenth century, mainstream magazines established ideal images of white female culture, while comparable African American periodicals were cast among the shadows. Noliwe M. Rooks & amp;rsquo;s Ladies & amp;rsquo; Pages sheds light on the most influential African American women & amp;rsquo;s magazines & amp;ndash; & amp;ndash;Ringwood & amp;rsquo;s Afro-American Journal of Fashion, Half-Century Magazine for the Colored Homemaker, Tan Confessions, Essence, and O, the Oprah Magazine & amp;ndash; & amp;ndash;and their little-known success in shaping the lives of black women. Ladies & amp;rsquo; Pages demonstrates how thes.

Language

English.

Note

Description based on print version record.

Subject

Frauenzeitschrift

Kulturelle Identität

Women's periodicals, American. (OCoLC)fst01178766

African American periodicals. (OCoLC)fst00799293

REFERENCE -- General.

Periodiques noirs americains -- Histoire -- 19e siecle.

Periodiques noirs americains -- Histoire -- 20e siecle.

Women's periodicals, American -- History -- 19th century.

African American periodicals -- History -- 19th century.

Women's periodicals, American -- History -- 20th century.

African American periodicals -- History -- 20th century.

USA.

Schwarze.

Genre/Form

History. (OCoLC)fst01411628

Electronic books.

Added Author

Project Muse. distributor

ISBN

9780813542522

9780813534244

0813542529