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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

King-O'Riain, Rebecca Chiyoko.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Beauty contests--United States.

Beauty contests.

Japanese Americans.

Japanese American women.

Race awareness--United States.

Race awareness.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (292 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 meanings are enacted through the pageants, and reveals their impact on Japanese American men, women, and children.

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-254) and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-9837-6

OCLC:

476096146