"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...

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Published in:	Radical History Review no. 103; pp. 36 - 60
Main Author:	Rowe, Rochelle
Format:	Article
Published:	Duke University Press Winter2009
Subjects:	Beauty contests Cultural nationalism Jamaicans Femininity Human skin color Image (Philosophy) Social history Jamaica
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