Ladies' Pages: African American Women's Magazines and the Culture That Made Them Book

1	Scattered pages : magazines, sex, and the culture of migration	1
	The African American press in historical context	6
	Shrouded in sex : writing back to history	10
	The cult of representation : "new Negro" ladies	16
	The new woman : consumerism and white women's magazines	19
	The migration journals	21
2	Refashioning rape : Ringwood's Afro-African journal of fashion	25
	The magazine	28
	Julia Ringwood Costen : a life in context	32
	Situating silence : race, rape, and memory	36
	Black bodies in the key of white : the accident of color	39
	Accounting for the past	44
3	To make a lady black and bid-her sing : clothes, class, and color	47
	Representing fashion, fashioning representation	49
	Showing and proving that they were ladies	51
	Advertising ladyhood	56
	White fashion, black readers	60
	Fashioning race : the twentieth century	63
4	"Colored faces looking out of fashion plates, well!" : twentieth-century fashion, migration, and urbanization	65
	Half-century magazine	68
	The migration of fashion	74
	The burden of dress	78
	What they are wearing	84
	The status of fashion	87
5	No place like home : domesticity, domestic work, and consumerism	89
	Home and turn-of-the-century American culture in black and white	91
	Gender, generation, and domestic work	101
	From character to consumption	108
6	Urban confessions and tan fantasies : the commodification of marriage and sexual desire in African American magazine fiction	113
	Marriage, urban space, and turn-of-the-century writing	115
	Tan confessions	120
	Consuming fantasies in black and tan	124
	Ebony dreams : buying citizenship, selling race	131
	Marketing matrimony, selling consumption	134
7	But is it black and female? : Essence, O, and American magazine publishing	140
	Essence magazine	142
	O, the Oprah magazine	148