Blain Roberts: 2 books
Pageants, Parlors, and Pretty Women
Race and Beauty in the Twentieth-Century South
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2014
From the South's pageant queens to the importance of beauty parlors to African American communities, it is easy to see the ways beauty is enmeshed in southern culture. But as Blain Roberts shows in this incisive work, the pursuit of beauty in the South was linked to the tumultuous racial divides of...
Denmark Vesey’s Garden
Slavery and Memory in the Cradle of the Confederacy
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Interest in Denmark Vesey: Following the Dylann Roof shooting in Charleston, interest in Denmark Vesey has surged, with major pieces covering his life in Time Magazine, USA Today, NPR, The New Yorker, Slate, The Washington Post, and many other newspapers and magazines.
Platform: Authors have...