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Southern Beauty - Race, Ritual, and Memory in the Modern South (Paperback)
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Southern Beauty - Race, Ritual, and Memory in the Modern South (Paperback)
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The southern beauty is alive and well in the twenty-first century
American South - and so is a particular silence. All across the
region young white women routinely turn-in renditions of femininity
more in keeping with nineteenth century gender ideals than
twenty-first. In popular performances that gestured toward the
southern past, the southern beauty performed choreography of
exclusion, consolidating privilege and reiterating race in a near
absence of scrutiny. Chances are, you never noticed. That is
precisely the point. Southern Beauty explains the long presence of
this unlikely figure - and the widespread studied attempts over
time to ignore her. Built on a foundation of ethnographic-including
more than sixty interviews-and historical research, Southern Beauty
explores three popular feminine rituals: sorority rush, the beauty
pageant, and an Old South tourist production. All feature a cast of
southern beauties with distinct traces of an imagined past. Boyd
investigates these rituals for their cultural memory work over time
- for the role they played in promoting particular remembrances of
the southern past.
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