Author: First Methodist Church (Corvallis, Or.)
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Category : Church buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Centennial Observance 1848-1948, November 7, 1948
First Methodist Church Centennial Observance, 1848-1948, November 7, 1948
Author: First Methodist Church (Corvallis, Or.)
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Category : Benton County (Or.)
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Publisher:
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Category : Benton County (Or.)
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Our Centennial Jubilee November 21, 1848-November 21, 1948
Author: First Presbyterian Church (Sullivan, Ill.)
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 20
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 20
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Centennial Celebration 1848-1948
Author: St. Cecilia Church (Sheldon, N.Y.)
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 12
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 12
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Handbook for Local Observance
History and Centennial Observance
Author: Providence Medical Association
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Category : Medical care
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Category : Medical care
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Queen of the Virgins
Author: M. Cynthia Oliver
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1604733489
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Beauty pageants are wildly popular in the U.S. Virgin Islands, outnumbering any other single performance event and capturing the attention of the local people from toddlers to seniors. Local beauty contests provide women opportunities to demonstrate talent, style, the values of black womanhood, and the territory's social mores. Queen of the Virgins: Pageantry and Black Womanhood in the Caribbean is a comprehensive look at the centuries-old tradition of these expressions in the Virgin Islands. M. Cynthia Oliver maps the trajectory of pageantry from its colonial precursors at tea meetings, dance dramas, and street festival parades to its current incarnation as the beauty pageant or queen show. For the author, pageantry becomes a lens through which to view the region's understanding of gender, race, sexuality, class, and colonial power. Focusing on the queen show, Oliver reveals its twin roots in slave celebrations that parodied white colonial behavior and created creole royal rituals and celebrations heavily influenced by Africanist aesthetics. Using the U.S. Virgin Islands as an intriguing case study, Oliver shows how the pageant continues to reflect, reinforce, and challenge Caribbean cultural values concerning femininity. Queen of the Virgins examines the journey of the black woman from degraded body to vaunted queen and how this progression is marked by social unrest, growing middle-class sensibilities, and contemporary sexual and gender politics.
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1604733489
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Beauty pageants are wildly popular in the U.S. Virgin Islands, outnumbering any other single performance event and capturing the attention of the local people from toddlers to seniors. Local beauty contests provide women opportunities to demonstrate talent, style, the values of black womanhood, and the territory's social mores. Queen of the Virgins: Pageantry and Black Womanhood in the Caribbean is a comprehensive look at the centuries-old tradition of these expressions in the Virgin Islands. M. Cynthia Oliver maps the trajectory of pageantry from its colonial precursors at tea meetings, dance dramas, and street festival parades to its current incarnation as the beauty pageant or queen show. For the author, pageantry becomes a lens through which to view the region's understanding of gender, race, sexuality, class, and colonial power. Focusing on the queen show, Oliver reveals its twin roots in slave celebrations that parodied white colonial behavior and created creole royal rituals and celebrations heavily influenced by Africanist aesthetics. Using the U.S. Virgin Islands as an intriguing case study, Oliver shows how the pageant continues to reflect, reinforce, and challenge Caribbean cultural values concerning femininity. Queen of the Virgins examines the journey of the black woman from degraded body to vaunted queen and how this progression is marked by social unrest, growing middle-class sensibilities, and contemporary sexual and gender politics.
Report of the ... Annual Convention
Author: Evangelical Lutheran Augustana Synod of North America. Convention
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Category : Lutheran Church
Languages : en
Pages : 1464
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Category : Lutheran Church
Languages : en
Pages : 1464
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Congressional Record
Author: United States. Congress
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1294
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1294
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