King-O'Riain, Rebecca Chiyoko. <br/><br/>
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. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-254) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. <br/>Palo Alto, Calif. : <br/>ebrary, <br/>2013. <br/>Available via World Wide Web. <br/>Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. 
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<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBA673143  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label> Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Beauty contests--United States.<br/>Japanese Americans.<br/>Japanese American women.<br/>Race awareness--United States.
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<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HQ1220.U5  / K56 2006eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>791.6/2