A Feeling of Belonging: Asian American Women's Public Culture, 1930-1960When we imagine the activities of Asian American women in the mid-twentieth century, our first thoughts are not of skiing, beauty pageants, magazine reading, and sororities. Yet, Shirley Jennifer Lim argues, these are precisely the sorts of leisure practices many second generation Chinese, Filipina, and Japanese American women engaged in during this time. |
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... American Beauty Culture during the Cold War Riding the Crest of an Oriental Wave: Foreign-Born Asian “Beauty” Conclusion Notes Index About the Author vii 11 2 47 3 87 4 121 5 155 189 191 231 241 v Preface To paraphrase Alice Walker ...
... American women in Los Angeles to a labor/organizational history of Asian Americans and entertainment. After ... born in the United States, people were not willing to grant me my birthright of cultural American citizenship. Rather, I had ...
... American women, for many first entered the United States after the Spanish-American War in order to perform in World ... born Asians. This cohort owed its genesis to the convergence of three historical factors.12 First, in the twentieth ...
... American-born women of Asian descent to attain numerical and cultural significance. Moreover, the 1930s second generation known as the Nisei was unique in American history. In a nation-state that validated racial segregation with the ...
... American-born generations also had difficulty obtaining property. Practices ranging from red-lining home mortgages to restrictive housing covenants ensured the whiteness of “exclusive” neighborhoods.39 Thus, like many other racial ...
Contents
2 I Protest | |
3 Shortcut to Glamour | |
4 Contested Beauty | |
5 Riding the Crest of an Oriental Wave | |
6 Conclusion | |
Notes | |
Index | |
About the Author | |