Imagining Caribbean Womanhood: Race, Nation and Beauty Competitions, 1929-70 by

Description: Imagining Caribbean Womanhood by Rochelle Rowe Examines the links between beauty and politics in the Anglophone Caribbean FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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 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. The beauty contest, a seemingly marginal phenomenon, is used to illuminate the persistence of racial supremacy, 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. -- . Flap 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 of Caribbean beauty competitions, spanning from Kingston to London. Imagining Caribbean womanhood traces the origins and transformation of female beauty contests in the British Caribbean between 1929 and 1970, through the development of cultural nationalism, race-conscious politics and decolonisation. The beauty contest, a seemingly marginal phenomenon, is used to illuminate the persistence of racial supremacy, 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 eroticised. The lively discussion surrounding beauty competitions, examined in this book, reveals that beauty was used to bring into being a sense of Caribbean modernity, citizenship and the desire for political and economic freedom. Within this period Caribbean beauty competitions changed from the private parties of the white-creole elite into mass public events that promoted new visions of Caribbean nationhood based on brown and black femininity. This volume explores the intense competitive rivalries shaped by enduring colonial social hierarchy that played out through beauty contests. It examines the perspectives and motivations of female beauty candidates. It also examines the responses of Caribbean feminists, including Jamaican poet and nationalist Una Marson and Trinidadian-born, Harlem-raised communist activist Claudia Jones who founded a new beauty competition for Caribbean settlers in postwar London. This cultural history of Caribbean beauty competitions will be of value to scholarship on beauty, Caribbean studies, postcolonial studies, gender studies, race and racism studies and studies of the body. Author Biography Rochelle Rowe is Academic Development Lead in Organisational Development at University College London Table of Contents Introduction: Caribbean beauty competitions in context1. The early Miss Jamaica competition: cultural revolution and feminist voices, 1929–19502. Cleaning up carnival: race, culture and power in the Trinidad Carnival Queen beauty competition, 1946–19593. Parading the crème de la crème: constructing the contest in Barbados, 1958–19664. Fashioning Ebony Cinderellas and brown icons: Jamaican beauty competitions and the myth of racial democracy, 1955–19645. Colonisation in reverse: Claudia Jones, the West Indian Gazette and the Carnival Queen contest in London, 1959–1964Afterword: a Grenadian Miss World, 1970 BibliographyIndex Review Imagining Caribbean Womanhood is a ground-breaking study that reveals the complex interweaving of beauty culture, gendered experience, and nationalism in a pivotal moment in Caribbean history.Jessica P. Clark, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of History, The Business of Beauty: Gender and the Body in Modern LondonHistorians often publish their first books by obligation... Second books are often the books that historians want to write. To her credit, Rochelle Rowes first monograph reads like it is her second...Rowes writing demonstrates both clarity of mind and expression and is free of foggy jargon. Rowes work, grounded in the cosmopolitan colonialism and multiculturalism of the Caribbean, will be of note and interest to social and cultural historians of the United States, Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, Great Britain, and the Atlantic world.Michael Edward Stanfield, American Historical ReviewIt is also one of very few historical studies that focuses on colourism, a phenomenon which has its origins in slavery and has continued up to the present. Rowes book then constitutes a major addition to the fields of Caribbean womens history and race history. Henrice Altink - Professor Modern History & author of Public Secrets: Race and Colour in Colonial and Independent JamaicaImagining Caribbean Womanhood is an outstanding contribution to studies of creolization and hybridity for its rigorous attention to these concepts as value laden and embedded in performances of the body in West Indian popular culture and nationalisms. I highly recommend Imagining Caribbean Womanhood to popular and academic audiences interested in the politics of beauty and decolonization movements.Patricia van Leeuwaarde Moonsammy, Dickinson College -- . Long Description 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 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. The beauty contest, a seemingly marginal phenomenon, is used to illuminate the persistence of racial supremacy, 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. -- . Review Quote Imagining Caribbean Womanhood is a ground-breaking study that reveals the complex interweaving of beauty culture, gendered experience, and nationalism in a pivotal moment in Caribbean history.Jessica P. Clark, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of History, The Business of Beauty: Gender and the Body in Modern London Historians often publish their first books by obligation... Second books are often the books that historians want to write. To her credit, Rochelle Rowes first monograph reads like it is her second...Rowes writing demonstrates both clarity of mind and expression and is free of foggy jargon. Rowes work, grounded in the cosmopolitan colonialism and multiculturalism of the Caribbean, will be of note and interest to social and cultural historians of the United States, Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, Great Britain, and the Atlantic world.Michael Edward Stanfield, American Historical Review It is also one of very few historical studies that focuses on colourism, a phenomenon which has its origins in slavery and has continued up to the present. Rowes book then constitutes a major addition to the fields of Caribbean womens history and race history. Henrice Altink - Professor Modern History & author of Public Secrets: Race and Colour in Colonial and Independent Jamaica Imagining Caribbean Womanhood is an outstanding contribution to studies of creolization and hybridity for its rigorous attention to these concepts as value laden and embedded in performances of the body in West Indian popular culture and nationalisms. I highly recommend Imagining Caribbean Womanhood to popular and academic audiences interested in the politics of beauty and decolonization movements.Patricia van Leeuwaarde Moonsammy, Dickinson College Details ISBN1526150336 Author Rochelle Rowe Pages 224 Publisher Manchester University Press Year 2020 ISBN-10 1526150336 ISBN-13 9781526150332 Format Paperback Imprint Manchester University Press Place of Publication Manchester Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 306.46 Illustrations 16 black & white illustrations Short Title Imagining Caribbean Womanhood Language English Publication Date 2020-04-20 UK Release Date 2020-04-20 NZ Release Date 2020-04-20 Series Gender in History Subtitle Race, Nation and Beauty Competitions, 1929–70 Audience Professional & Vocational AU Release Date 2020-04-19 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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