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Craig, MaxineLeeds.Ain'tIaBeautyQueen:Black Women, BeautyandthePoliticsofRace. (NewYork: OxfordUniversityPress, 2002).
Fromthebeginningofthetwentiethcentui-ytotheemergence ofBlackisBeautiful,CraigchroniclestheintertwiningofpoliticsandbeautystandardsinAfricanAmericanlife.
Haidarali,Laila."PolishingBrownDiamonds:AfricanAmerican,vomen,PopularMagazines,andtheAdventofModelinginEarlyPostwarAmerica."JournalofWomen'sHistory 17(1)(2005): 10-37
Haidaralitracesthebeginningsofopportunitiesforbrownskinnedmodelstotheexpansionofcorporatemarketingto AfricanAmericansinthepostWorldvVarIIera.
Kaiser,SusanB. and SarahRebollosoMcCullough. "EntanglingtheFashionSubjectThroughtheAfrican Diaspora: FromNotto(K)notinFashionTheory."Fashion Theory:TheJournalofDress,Body&Culture 14 (3)(2010): 361-386.
TheseauthorsshowthatAfricanAmericanstylecanonlybe understoodbytranscendingbinarythinlcing.
McA.ndrew, Malia."ATwentieth-Century TriangleTrade: SellingBlackBeautyatHomeandAbroad, 1945-1965." Enterprise &Socie{y u(4) (2010):784-8w.
Thisa1·ticleprovidesadetailedaccountandanalysisofhow OpheliaDeYore'stransnationalstrategyestablishedaplacefor blackmodelsinfashionandadvertising.
O'Neal, Gwendolyn S."TheAfricanAmericanChurch, its SacredCosmosandDress,"inReligion,DressandtheBody, ed.LindaB.Arthur. (NewYork:BergPublishers,1999), n7-r34.
O'NealidentifiestheimportanceofTheBlack ChurchasaninstitutionthatpreservesandnurturesAfricanAmericanculture includingblackaestheticsregardingdress.
Rooks, Noliwe.HairRaising:Beauty, Culture, andAfrican American Women. (New Brunswick:RutgersUniversity Press,1996).
Thisisahistoryofthewayinwhichthepoliticsandpracticeof blackbeautyculturewereshapedbyblackwomenentrepreneurslikeMadamC.J.Walker.
Rooks,Noliwe.Ladies'Pages:AfricanAmerican Women'.s MagazinesandtheCultureThatMade Them.(NewBrunswick: RutgersUniversityPress, 2004).
RooksuncoverstheIittleknownhistoryofblackwomen's magazines,whichexistedasfarbackas1891,anddescribes thewayinwhichfashionwaspromotedasatool fordefining AfricanAmericanwomen'sidentity
White, Shane and GrahamWhite.Stylin'.·AfricanAmerican Expressive CulturefromItsBeginningstotheZootSuit. (Ithaca:CornellUniversity Press, 1998).
Drawing onsourcesrangingfromescapedslavenoticestooral history.thisbook providesadetailedhistoryofAfricanAmericanpersonalstyle.
