"Glorifying the Jamaican Girl": The "Ten Types -- One People" Beauty Contest, Racialized Femininities, and Jamaican Nationalism.
The "Ten Types-One People" multiracial beauty contest was launched in 1955 in Jamaica, then a British colony on the cusp of independence. Jamaican nationalists designed "Ten Types" as a central part of the "Jamaica 300" tercentenary celebrations, the colony's first foray into imagining modern Jamaic...
| Publicado en: | Radical History Review no. 103; pp. 36 - 60 |
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