Author: David Glassberg
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 9780807842867
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
What images shape Americans' perceptions of their past? How do particular versions of history become the public history? And how have these views changed over time? David Glassberg explores these important questions by examining the pageantry craze of the
American Historical Pageantry
Author: David Glassberg
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 9780807842867
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
What images shape Americans' perceptions of their past? How do particular versions of history become the public history? And how have these views changed over time? David Glassberg explores these important questions by examining the pageantry craze of the
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 9780807842867
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
What images shape Americans' perceptions of their past? How do particular versions of history become the public history? And how have these views changed over time? David Glassberg explores these important questions by examining the pageantry craze of the
A Handbook of American Pageantry, by Ralph Davol
Author: Ralph Davol
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pageants
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pageants
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Propaganda and Misrepresentation in Early Twentieth Century American Historical and Civic Pageantry
Author: Vana Pietroniro
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pageants
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pageants
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Spirit of America
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pageants
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pageants
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
American Pageantry
Author: Naima Prevots
Publisher:
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
"The Gate City"
Author: Kathryn A. Beckham
Publisher:
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Category : Historical drama, American
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Historical drama, American
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Looking for Miss America
Author: Margot Mifflin
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 1640094903
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Winner of the Popular Culture Association’s Emily Toth Best Book in Women’s Studies Award From an author praised for writing “delicious social history” (Dwight Garner, The New York Times) comes a lively account of memorable Miss America contestants, protests, and scandals—and how the pageant, now in its one hundredth year, serves as an unintended indicator of feminist progress Looking for Miss America is a fast–paced narrative history of a curious and contradictory institution. From its start in 1921 as an Atlantic City tourist draw to its current incarnation as a scholarship competition, the pageant has indexed women’s status during periods of social change—the post–suffrage 1920s, the Eisenhower 1950s, the #MeToo era. This ever–changing institution has been shaped by war, evangelism, the rise of television and reality TV, and, significantly, by contestants who confounded expectations. Spotlighting individuals, from Yolande Betbeze, whose refusal to pose in swimsuits led an angry sponsor to launch the rival Miss USA contest, to the first black winner, Vanessa Williams, who received death threats and was protected by sharpshooters in her hometown parade, Margot Mifflin shows how women made hard bargains even as they used the pageant for economic advancement. The pageant’s history includes, crucially, those it excluded; the notorious Rule Seven, which required contestants to be “of the white race,” was retired in the 1950s, but no women of color were crowned until the 1980s. In rigorously researched, vibrant chapters that unpack each decade of the pageant, Looking for Miss America examines the heady blend of capitalism, patriotism, class anxiety, and cultural mythology that has fueled this American ritual.
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 1640094903
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Winner of the Popular Culture Association’s Emily Toth Best Book in Women’s Studies Award From an author praised for writing “delicious social history” (Dwight Garner, The New York Times) comes a lively account of memorable Miss America contestants, protests, and scandals—and how the pageant, now in its one hundredth year, serves as an unintended indicator of feminist progress Looking for Miss America is a fast–paced narrative history of a curious and contradictory institution. From its start in 1921 as an Atlantic City tourist draw to its current incarnation as a scholarship competition, the pageant has indexed women’s status during periods of social change—the post–suffrage 1920s, the Eisenhower 1950s, the #MeToo era. This ever–changing institution has been shaped by war, evangelism, the rise of television and reality TV, and, significantly, by contestants who confounded expectations. Spotlighting individuals, from Yolande Betbeze, whose refusal to pose in swimsuits led an angry sponsor to launch the rival Miss USA contest, to the first black winner, Vanessa Williams, who received death threats and was protected by sharpshooters in her hometown parade, Margot Mifflin shows how women made hard bargains even as they used the pageant for economic advancement. The pageant’s history includes, crucially, those it excluded; the notorious Rule Seven, which required contestants to be “of the white race,” was retired in the 1950s, but no women of color were crowned until the 1980s. In rigorously researched, vibrant chapters that unpack each decade of the pageant, Looking for Miss America examines the heady blend of capitalism, patriotism, class anxiety, and cultural mythology that has fueled this American ritual.
English Pageantry
Author: Robert Withington
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pageants
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pageants
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Pageants in Great Britain and the United States
Author: Caroline Hill Davis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pageants
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pageants
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
The American Pageant
Author: David M. Kennedy
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780618103577
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780618103577
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description