Sunday, January 5, 8:30–10:30 a.m.

American Historical Association Annual Meeting Sessions

140. "Contested Queendom": Beauty Culture, Race, and Sexuality in Twentieth-Century North America

Palmer House, Parlor H

Joint session with the Committee on Lesbian and Gay History

Chair: Geoffrey Smith, Queen's University

Papers: Doing Race, Making "Nation": The Indian Princess Beauty Contest in Canada in the 1960s
Patrizia Gentile, Queen's University, Ontario

"Polishing Black Diamonds": Black Models and Black Magazine Culture in Early Post-War America
Laila Haidarali, York University

The Beauty of Drag Queens
Leila J. Rupp, University of California at Santa Barbara
Verta Taylor, University of California at Santa Barbara

Comment: Elspeth Brown, University of Toronto

   

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