World War II and African American Women

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald Roe
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
African American Women ◽  
World War ◽  
American Women

scholarly journals Mammography Screening Trends: The Perspective of African American Women Born Pre/Post World War II

2010 ◽  
Vol 102 (6) ◽  
pp. 452-460 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Patricia Williams ◽  
Athur Mabiso ◽  
Yun-Jia Lo ◽  
Louis A. Penner
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
African American Women ◽  
Mammography Screening ◽  
World War ◽  
American Women ◽  
Post World War Ii

Epilogue

Brown Beauty ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 261-262
Author(s):  
Laila Haidarali
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
African American ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Public Schools ◽  
African American Women ◽  
The United States ◽  
Board Of Education ◽  
World War ◽  
Short Period ◽  
And Function

This epilogue reemphasizes the arguments in the book. Brown-skin models acquired significant social status as African American women on an expanded global stage between 1945 and 1954—a short but critical period that marked the end of World War II, the hardening lines of Cold War politics, and the significant victory of Brown v. Board of Education that, in 1954, made segregation illegal in public schools. Indeed, during this short period and turning tide, a powerful iconography of beautiful brown women emerged to represent African-descended people in the United States by recasting beauty as a democratic right and function. Brown beauty was formalized, both at home and abroad, as a consumerist symbol of women’s successful negotiation of the trials of race, sex, and womanhood in the postwar nation, still half-segregated.

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