Miss Amèrica

Miss Amèrica
Tipus	concurs de bellesa femenina
Vigència	1921 -
Freqüència	anual
Estat	Estats Units d'Amèrica
Cronologia
1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1934, 1950, 2021	No realitzat l'any
Lloc web	missamerica.org

Miss America és un concurs de bellesa femenina que es realitza des de 1921.^[1] En el concurs participen 50 estats dels Estats Units més el districte de Colúmbia i les Illes Verges.^[2] El concurs concedeix beques a les guanyadores.

Guanyadores

Dorothy Benham durant el *tour* de Miss Amèrica a Corea 1977.

Any	Miss Amèrica	Representació
1921	Margaret Gorman^[3]	Washington DC
1922	Mary Campbell	Columbus (Ohio)
1923	Mary Campbell	Columbus (Ohio)
1924	Ruth Malcomson	Filadèlfia (Pennsilvània)
1925	Fay Lanphier	Oakland (Califòrnia)
1926	Norma Smallwood	Tulsa (Oklahoma)
1927	Lois Delander	Joliet (Illinois)
1933	Marian Bergeron	West Haven (Connecticut)
1935	Henrietta Leaver	Pittsburgh (Pennsilvània)
1936	Rose Coyle	Filadèlfia (Pennsilvània)
1937	Bette Cooper	Bertrand Island (Nova Jersey)
1938	Marilyn Meseke	Marion (Ohio)
1939	Patricia Donnelly	Detroit (Michigan)
1940	Frances Marie Burke	Filadèlfia (Pennsilvània)
1941	Rosemary LaPlanche	Los Angeles (Califòrnia)
1942	Jo-Carroll Dennison	Tyler (Texas)
1943	Jean Bartel^[4]	Los Angeles (Califòrnia)
1944	Venus Ramey	Washington DC
1945	Bess Myerson	Nova York Nova York)
1946	Marilyn Buferd	Los Angeles (Califòrnia)
1947	Barbara Jo Walker	Memphis (Tennessee)
1948	BeBe Shopp	Hopkins (Minnesota)
1949	Jacque Mercer	Litchfield Park (Arizona)
1951	Yolande Betbeze	Mobile (Alabama)
1952	Colleen Kay Hutchins	Salt Lake City (Utah)
1953	Neva Jane Langley	Macon (Geòrgia)
1954	Evelyn Margaret Ay	Ephrata (Pennsilvània)
1955	Lee Meriwether	San Francisco (Califòrnia)
1956	Sharon Ritchie	Denver (Colorado)
1957	Marian McKnight	Manning (Carolina del Sud)
1958	Marilyn Van Derbur	Denver (Colorado)
1959	Mary Ann Mobley	Brandon (Mississipi)
1960	Lynda Lee Mead	Natchez (Mississipi)
1961	Nancy Fleming	Montague (Michigan)
1962	Maria Fletcher	Asheville (Carolina del Nord)
1963	Jacquelyn Mayer	Sandusky (Ohio)
1964	Donna Axum	El Dorado (Arkansas)
1965	Vonda Kay Van Dyke	Phoenix (Arizona)
1966	Deborah Irene Bryant	Overland Park (Kansas)
1967	Jane Anne Jayroe	Laverne (Oklahoma)
1968	Debra Dene Barnes	Moran (Kansas)
1969	Judith Anne Ford	Belvidere (Illinois)
1970	Pamela Anne Eldred	West Bloomfield (Michigan)
1971	Phyllis Ann George	Denton (Texas)
1972	Laurie Lea Schaefer	Columbus (Ohio)
1973	Terry Anne Meeuwsen	De Pere (Wisconsin)
1974	Rebecca Ann King	Denver (Colorado)
1975	Shirley Cothran	Fort Worth (Texas)
1976	Tawny Elaine Godin	Yonkers (Nova York)
1977	Dorothy Kathleen Benham	Edina (Minnesota)
1978	Susan Perkins	Columbus (Ohio)
1979	Kylene Barker	Galax (Virgínia)
1980	Cheryl Prewitt	Ackerman (Mississipi)
1981	Susan Powell	Elk City (Oklahoma)
1982	Elizabeth Ward	Russellville (Arkansas)
1983	Debra Maffett	Anaheim (Califòrnia)
1984	Vanessa Williams (renuncia)	Watertown (Nova York)
1984	Suzette Charles	Mays Landing (Nova Jersey)
1985	Sharlene Wells	Salt Lake City (Utah)
1986	Susan Akin	Meridian (Mississipi)
1987	Kellye Cash	Memphis (Tennessee)
1988	Kaye Lani Rae Rafko	Monroe (Michigan)
1989	Gretchen Carlson	Anoka (Minnesota)
1990	Debbye Turner	Mexico (Missouri)
1991	Marjorie Judith Vincent	Oak Park (Illinois)
1992	Carolyn Suzanne Sapp	Kailua-Kona (Hawaii)
1993	Leanza Cornett	Jacksonville (Florida)
1994	Kimberly Clarice Aiken	Columbia (Carolina del Sud)
1995	Heather Whitestone	Birmingham (Alabama)
1996	Shawntel Smith	Muldrow (Oklahoma)
1997	Tara Dawn Holland	Overland Park (Kansas)
1998	Katherine Shindle	Evanston (Illinois)
1999	Nicole Johnson	Roanoke (Virgínia)
2000	Heather French	Augusta (Kentucky)
2001	Angela Perez Baraquio	Honolulu (Hawaii)
2002	Katie Harman	Gresham (Oregon)
2003	Erika Harold	Urbana (Illinois)
2004	Ericka Dunlap	Orlando (Florida)
2005	Deidre Downs	Birmingham (Alabama)
2006	Jennifer Berry	Tulsa (Oklahoma)
2007	Lauren Nelson	Lawton (Oklahoma)
2008	Kirsten Haglund	Farmington Hills (Michigan)
2009	Katie Stam	Seymour (Indiana)
2010	Caressa Cameron	Fredericksburg (Virgínia)
2011	Teresa Scanlan	Gering (Nebraska)
2012	Laura Kaeppeler	Kenosha, Wisconsin
2013	Mallory Hytes Hagan	Brooklyn, Nova York
2014	Nina Davuluri	Syracuse, Nova York
2015	Kira Kazantsev	Manhattan, Nova York
2016	Betty Cantrell	Geòrgia
2017	Savvy Shields	Arkansas

Referències

↑ «Miss America: FAQ». Arxivat de l'original el 2017-05-02. [Consulta: 13 maig 2017].
↑ Watson, Ellwood; Martin, Darcy «The Miss America Pageant: Pluralism, Femininity, and Cinderella All in One». Journal of Popular Culture. Wiley, 1, 34, 2000, pàg. 105–126.
↑ «People & Events: The First Miss America Beauty Pageant, 1921». Public Broadcasting Service.
↑ Shindle, Kate. Being Miss America: Behind the Rhinestone Curtain. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2014, p. 13–14. ISBN 978-0-292-73921-5.

Bibliografia

Banet-Weiser, Sarah. The Most Beautiful Girl in the World:Beauty Pageants and National Identity. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.
Carlson, Gretchen (Miss America 1989). Getting Real. New York: Viking Press, 2015.
Riverol, A.R. Live from Atlantic City: A History of the Miss America Pageant. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University, Popular Press, 1992.
Shindle, Kate (Miss America 1998). Being Miss America: Behind the Rhinestone Curtain. University of Texas Press, 2014.
Wiliams, Vanessa (Miss America 1984) and Helen Williams. You Have No Idea: A Famous Daughter, Her No-nonsense Mother, and How They Survived Pageants, Hollywood, Love, Loss (and Each Other). New York: Gotham/Penguin Group, 2012.

Documentals

The American Experience: Miss America – American Experience, Public Broadcasting Service (2001, 90 min)

Enllaços externs

A Wikimedia Commons hi ha contingut multimèdia relatiu a: Miss Amèrica

Miss America Organization
Miss America Foundation Arxivat 2019-01-09 a Wayback Machine.

[1] «Miss America: FAQ». Arxivat de l'original el 2017-05-02. [Consulta: 13 maig 2017].

[2] Watson, Ellwood; Martin, Darcy «The Miss America Pageant: Pluralism, Femininity, and Cinderella All in One». Journal of Popular Culture. Wiley, 1, 34, 2000, pàg. 105–126.

[early-3] «People & Events: The First Miss America Beauty Pageant, 1921». Public Broadcasting Service.

[4] Shindle, Kate. Being Miss America: Behind the Rhinestone Curtain. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2014, p. 13–14. ISBN 978-0-292-73921-5.

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