Pure beauty

King-O'Riain, Rebecca Chiyoko.

Pure beauty judging race in Japanese American beauty pageants / [electronic resource] : Rebecca Chiyoko King-O'Riain. - Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2006. - xiii, 276 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-254) and index.

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.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
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Beauty contests--United States.
Japanese Americans.
Japanese American women.
Race awareness--United States.


Electronic books.

HQ1220.U5 / K56 2006eb

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