Pure beauty judging race in Japanese American beauty pageants /
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| Language: | English |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
c2006.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Negotiating racial hybridity in community beauty pageants
- Race work and the effort of racial claims
- The Japanese American community in transition
- Japanese American beauty pageants in historical perspective
- Cultural impostors and eggs : race without culture and culture without race
- Patrolling bodies : the social control of race through gender
- The "ambassadress" queen : moving authentically between racial communities in the United States and Japan
- Percentages, parts, and power : racial eligibility rules and local versions of Japanese Americanness in context
- Conclusion: Japanese Americanness, beauty pageants, and race work.