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Pure beauty

by King-O'Riain, Rebecca Chiyoko.

Additional authors: ebrary, Inc.

Published by : University of Minnesota Press, (Minneapolis :) Physical details: xiii, 276 p. : ill.

Subject(s): Beauty contests -- United States. | Japanese Americans. | Japanese American women. | Race awareness -- United States. | Electronic books.

Year: 2006

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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.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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