Style and Status: Selling Beauty to African American Women, 1920-1975.(Book review)

From: Journal of Southern History | Date: May 1, 2008| Author: Roberts, Blain | Copyright information

Style and Status: Selling Beauty to African American Women, 1920-1975. By Susannah Walker. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c. 2007. Pp. [xiv], 250. $40.00, ISBN 978-0-8131-2433-9.)

Susannah Walker's new book, Style and Status: Selling Beauty to African American Women, 1920-1975, offers an excellent history of black beauty culture in the United States from the rise of a mass consumer market in the 1920s to the emergence of Black Power. Defined as the "tools, met...

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