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Waiting for Miss America (Singles Classic)

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At a time when the very purpose and motivation of the Miss America contest is being called into question, and rightly so, by feminists of every stripe, and the entire cultural sub-genre called the beauty contest is being seen as, at best, irrelevant to modern women and, at worst, an insult to them, one might find the Miss America title to be a very dubious or ambiguous honor. Furthermore, Vanessa Williams was chosen largely because her good looks are quite similar to those of any white contestant.

In Waiting for Miss America, Gerald Early unpacks what it means, socially and politically, for a black woman to have won the Miss America Pageant for the first time, as he, his wife and two young daughters stand on line at a local drugstore awaiting a chance to meet the 1984 winner, Vanessa Williams.

Waiting for Miss America was originally published in the Antioch Review, Summer 1984.

Cover design by Adil Dara.

Language: English

Pages: 18

Format: Kindle Edition

Release: July 18, 2016

Waiting for Miss America (Singles Classic)

0/5 ( ratings)

At a time when the very purpose and motivation of the Miss America contest is being called into question, and rightly so, by feminists of every stripe, and the entire cultural sub-genre called the beauty contest is being seen as, at best, irrelevant to modern women and, at worst, an insult to them, one might find the Miss America title to be a very dubious or ambiguous honor. Furthermore, Vanessa Williams was chosen largely because her good looks are quite similar to those of any white contestant.

In Waiting for Miss America, Gerald Early unpacks what it means, socially and politically, for a black woman to have won the Miss America Pageant for the first time, as he, his wife and two young daughters stand on line at a local drugstore awaiting a chance to meet the 1984 winner, Vanessa Williams.

Waiting for Miss America was originally published in the Antioch Review, Summer 1984.

Cover design by Adil Dara.

Language: English

Pages: 18

Format: Kindle Edition

Release: July 18, 2016

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