The rhetoric of black bodies: Race, beauty, and representation

"There She is, Miss America": The Politics of Sex, Beauty, and Race in America's Most Famous Pageant

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 93-109

  Kinloch, Valerie Felita ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

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EID: 85002774947     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1057/9781403981820_5     Document Type: Chapter

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