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 society by probing the meanings of racially marked subjects, Asian American women, who have been rendered ... Filipino American community's Fourth of July queen— signaled rupture in European American standards of beauty. Since ...
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... American life at the 1900 Paris Exposition. Similarly, African American filmmaker Oscar Micheaux wrote, produced ... Filipino American modernity that could prove the efficacy of the Philippines decolonization. Although on the surface ...
... American or Chicana sororities, members of Chi Alpha Delta mentioned that they knew of one Jewish sorority that had ... Filipino Bruin Club tantalizingly submitted a UCLA yearbook picture of six of its members.77 At UCLA, there was no ...
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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 | |