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.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
GBA673143 bnb
Uk
Beauty contests--United States.
Japanese Americans.
Japanese American women.
Race awareness--United States.
Electronic books.
HQ1220.U5 / K56 2006eb
791.6/2
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.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
GBA673143 bnb
Uk
Beauty contests--United States.
Japanese Americans.
Japanese American women.
Race awareness--United States.
Electronic books.
HQ1220.U5 / K56 2006eb
791.6/2