Pure beauty : judging race in Japanese American beauty pageants /

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Rebecca Chiyoko King-O'Riain studies Japanese American community beauty pageants in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, and Honolulu to discover how these pageants seek to maintain racial and ethnic purity amid shifting notions of cultural identity. Pure Beauty shows how racial and gendered me...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: King-O'Riain, Rebecca Chiyoko (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2006.
Subjects:
Beauty contests > United States.
Japanese Americans.
Japanese American women.
Race awareness > United States.
Concours de beauté > États-Unis.
Américains d'origine japonaise.
Américaines d'origine japonaise.
Conscience de race > États-Unis.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > General.
Beauty contests
Japanese American women
Japanese Americans
Race awareness
United States
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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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