books.google.com - "Black is Beautiful!" The words were the exuberant rallying cry of a generation of black women who threw away their straightening combs and adopted a proud new style they called the Afro. The Afro, as worn most famously by Angela Davis, became a veritable icon of the Sixties. Although the new beauty...http://books.google.com/books/about/Ain_t_I_a_Beauty_Queen_Black_Women_Beaut.html?id=6y5SKe325PUC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareAin't I a Beauty Queen? : Black Women, Beauty, and the Politics of Race