Pure beauty judging race in Japanese American beauty pageants /

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1. autor: King-O'Riain, Rebecca Chiyoko
Korporacja: ebrary, Inc
Format: Elektroniczne E-book
Język:angielski
Wydane: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2006.
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Spis treści:
  • 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.