Pure beauty judging race in Japanese American beauty pageants / Rebecca Chiyoko King-O'Riain.

Author/creator King-O'Riain, Rebecca Chiyoko
Format Electronic
Publication InfoMinneapolis : University of Minnesota Press,
Descriptionxiii, 276 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 239-254) and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2006019972
ISBN0816647895 (hdbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN9780816647897 (hdbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0816647909 (pb : alk. paper)
ISBN9780816647903 (pb : alk. paper)

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