{"id":34569,"date":"2013-11-03T02:33:46","date_gmt":"2013-11-03T02:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=34569"},"modified":"2013-11-04T02:25:09","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T02:25:09","slug":"imagining-caribbean-womanhood-race-nation-and-beauty-competitions-1929%e2%80%9370","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=34569","title":{"rendered":"Imagining Caribbean Womanhood: Race, Nation and Beauty Competitions, 1929\u201370"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk\/cgi-bin\/indexer?product=9780719088674\" target=\"_blank\">Imagining Caribbean Womanhood: Race, Nation and Beauty Competitions, 1929\u201370<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">Manchester University Press<\/a><br \/>\nOctober 2013<br \/>\n192 pages<br \/>\n216 x 138 mm<br \/>\nHardback ISBN: 978-0-7190-8867-4<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rochelle Rowe<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>University of Exeter<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk\/cgi-bin\/indexer?product=9780719088674\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bookcovers.boomerangbooks.com.au\/Large\/674\/9780719088674.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Over fifty years after Jamaican and Trinidadian independence, <em>Imagining Caribbean Womanhood<\/em> examines the links between beauty and politics in the Anglophone Caribbean, providing a first cultural history of Caribbean beauty competitions, spanning from Kingston to London. It traces the origins and transformation of female beauty contests in the British Caribbean from 1929 to 1970, through the development of cultural nationalism, race-conscious politics and decolonisation.<\/p>\n<p>The beauty contest, a seemingly marginal phenomenon, <strong>is used to illuminate the persistence of racial supremacy<\/strong>, the advance of consumer culture and the negotiation of race and nation through the idealised performance of cultured, modern beauty. Modern Caribbean femininity was intended to be politically functional but also commercially viable and subtly eroticised. The lively discussion surrounding beauty competitions, examined in this book, reveals that femininity was used to shape ideas about Caribbean modernity, citizenship, and political and economic freedom. This cultural history of Caribbean beauty competitions will be of value to scholarship on beauty, Caribbean studies, postcolonial studies, gender studies, \u2018race\u2019 and racism studies and studies of the body.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Introduction: Caribbean beauty competitions in context<\/li>\n<li>1. The early \u2018Miss Jamaica\u2019 competition: cultural revolution and feminist voices, 1929\u20131950<\/li>\n<li>2. Cleaning up carnival: race, culture and power in the Trinidad \u2018Carnival Queen\u2019 beauty competition, 1946\u20131959<\/li>\n<li>3. Parading the \u2018cr\u00e8me de la cr\u00e8me\u2019: constructing the contest in Barbados, 1958\u20131966<\/li>\n<li>4. Fashioning \u2018Ebony Cinderellas\u2019 and brown icons: Jamaican beauty competitions and the myth of racial democracy, 1955\u20131964<\/li>\n<li>5. \u2018Colonisation in reverse\u2019: Claudia Jones, the West Indian Gazette and the \u2018Carnival Queen\u2019 contest in London, 1959\u20131964<\/li>\n<li>Afterword: a Grenadian \u2018Miss World\u2019, 1970<\/li>\n<li>Bibliography<\/li>\n<li>Index<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagining Caribbean Womanhood: Race, Nation and Beauty Competitions, 1929\u201370 Manchester University Press October 2013 192 pages 216 x 138 mm Hardback ISBN: 978-0-7190-8867-4 Rochelle Rowe University of Exeter Over fifty years after Jamaican and Trinidadian independence, Imagining Caribbean Womanhood examines the links between beauty and politics in the Anglophone Caribbean, providing a first cultural history [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,11,21,8,17,25],"tags":[80,2571,16283,299],"class_list":["post-34569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-books","category-latincarib","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-women","tag-jamaica","tag-manchester-university-press","tag-rochelle-rowe","tag-trinidad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}