Beauty in a Box - by Cheryl Thompson (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><i>Beauty in a Box</i> explores the history of black beauty culture in Canada (its inventors, distribution networks, media, and retail end-points), and its similarities to, and departures from, African American beauty culture. It also traces media constructions of race that have circulated transnationally between Canada and the United States.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>One of the first transnational, feminist studies of American black beauty culture in Canada, and the role that media, retail, and consumers have played in its development, <i>Beauty in a Box</i> widens our understanding of the global politics of black hair.</b></p> <p> The book analyzes advertisements and articles from media--newspapers, advertisements, television, and other sources--that focus on black communities in Halifax, Montreal, Toronto, and Calgary. The author explains the role local black community media has played in the promotion of African American-owned beauty products; how the segmentation of beauty culture (i.e., the sale of black beauty products on store shelves labelled "ethnic hair care") occurred in Canada; and how black beauty culture, which was generally seen as a small niche market before the 1970s, entered Canada's mainstream by way of department stores, drugstores, and big-box retailers.</p> <p><i> Beauty in a Box</i> uses an interdisciplinary framework, engaging with African American history, critical race and cultural theory, consumer culture theory, media studies, diasporic art history, black feminism, visual culture, film studies, and political economy to explore the history of black beauty culture in both Canada and the United States.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p><i>Beauty in a Box</i> makes a critical contribution to the history of beauty in Canada. One of the first studies to focus exclusively on Black women's beauty in twentieth-century Canada, it is a wide-ranging, ambitious recuperative work that adds significantly to our knowledge of a Black beauty culture deeply rooted in Canada. ...[The book] lays a firm foundation for future work on beauty, the body, and race.</p> --<b>Jane Nicholas, <i>Canadian Journal of History</b></i><br><br><p>Thompson's scholarly and accessible volume offers valuable reflections on the myriad contours of racism in Canada.</p> --<b><i>Room Magazine</b></i><br>
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