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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... Berkeley, the San Francisco Public Library, the Los Angeles Public Library, and the Chinese Historical Society of Southern California. I also thank the following for their support of this project: the Asian American Studies Center at ...
... Berkeley, Saiki Muneno recollected that discriminatory housing practices compelled Japanese American leaders to raise money to build Euclid House for the Japanese American students.43 At the University of California, Los Angeles ...
... Berkeley associate dean of women, told an Alpha Epsilon Phi national officer (who reported the conversation back to the sorority's national governing board) that she did not want Jewish sororities admitted to Panhellenic because “if ...
... Berkeley, the Chinese American sorority Sigma Omicron Pi was founded in 1930 and exists today.78 At both institutions, male Asian American fraternities did not organize until the late 1950s. Thus, on their respective campuses, Asian ...
... Berkeley football games were important events, and when the UC–Berkeley contingent drove down to Los Angeles, the Chis hosted the Berkeley Japanese American students for the football game and arranged social activities for them. To ...
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 | |