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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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
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