Pure beauty [electronic resource] : judging race in Japanese American beauty pageants / Rebecca Chiyoko King-O'Riain.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2006.Description: xiii, 276 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 791.6/2 22
LOC classification:
  • HQ1220.U5 K56 2006eb
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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.
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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.

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