Crowning the nice girl : gender, ethnicity, and culture in Hawaii's Cherry Blossom Festival /

Annotation After World War II, Japanese Americans in Hawai'i sought to carve a positive niche of public citizenship in the community. In 1953 members of the Honolulu Japanese Junior Chamber of Commerce and their wives created a beauty contest, the Cherry Blossom Festival (CBF) Queen Pageant, wh...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Yano, Christine Reiko (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, ©2006.
Temas:
Cherry Blossom Festival (Honolulu, Hawaii) > History.
Cherry Blossom Festival (Honolulu, Hawaii)
Beauty contests > Hawaii > Honolulu.
Japanese American women > Hawaii > Honolulu > Ethnic identity.
Japanese American women > Hawaii > Honolulu > Psychology.
Japanese American women > Hawaii > Honolulu > Social conditions.
Concours de beauté > Hawaii > Honolulu.
Américaines d'origine japonaise > Identité ethnique > Hawaii > Honolulu.
Américaines d'origine japonaise > Hawaii > Honolulu > Psychologie.
Américaines d'origine japonaise > Hawaii > Honolulu > Conditions sociales.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Beauty contests
Japanese American women > Psychology
Japanese American women > Social conditions
Manners and customs
Race relations
Ethnische Identität
Soziale Situation
Ethnische Beziehungen
Japanerin
Schönheitswettbewerb
Meisjes.
Exotisme.
Schoonheidsideaal.
Japanners.
Koninginnen (vorstinnen)
Honolulu (Hawaii) > Race relations.
Honolulu (Hawaii) > Social life and customs.
Honolulu (Hawaii) > Relations raciales.
Honolulu (Hawaii) > Mœurs et coutumes.
Hawaii > Honolulu
Honolulu, Hawaii
Hawaii.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue : Sansei dreams of beauty queens and beyond
  • Ch. 1. Beauty pageants as spectacles of gender, race/ethnicity, and community
  • Ch. 2. Historicizing the Cherry Blossom Festival : engendering the American way of life in postwar Hawai'i
  • Ch. 3. The Cherry Blossom Festival as center stage in Hawai'i : 1950s-1960s
  • Ch. 4. Herstories I : 1950s-1960s
  • Ch. 5. Struggles toward reform : 1970s-1990s
  • Ch. 6. Herstories II : 1970s-1990s
  • Ch. 7. Controversy and reform : finding a place in the twenty-first century
  • Ch. 8. Herstories III : 1999-2000s
  • Ch. 9. Crowning the "nice girl" : the politics and poetics of banality
  • App. Cherry Blossom Festival queens, 1953-2005.

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