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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... European Americans denies the racial hierarchy that attends to gender. In response to that double invisibility, Asian American women have long joined other women of color in challenging the prevalence of European American domination of ...
... European American sorority form into a more inclusive entity marked by their Asian American culture. The rubric of cultural citizenship would explain Chi Alpha Delta's decision to wear kimonos while performing “Sakura” at Spring Sing as ...
... American. During spring 1942, instead of hurrying across Royce Quad, exchanging greetings with classmates, you will ... European American sororities, they staged barnyard frolics, ski weekends, and beach outings and, at their banquets ...
... American women represented the first generation of American-born women of Asian descent to attain numerical and ... European migration and excluded Asians in actuality targeted Japanese immigration. In addition, California's alien land laws, ...
... American institutional records survived World War II internment.6 In addition, since it is exceedingly rare to have ... European American sororities. Third, sororities provided numerous opportunities for pleasure, and the women in Chi ...
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 | |