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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... Rafu Shimpo, subsequently reported: “Following the footsteps of the men students, the co-eds of UCLA have organized into a society which is known as the A. O. Society. It is an organization which is open to all of the Japanese women ...
... Rafu Shimpo exhibited three dresses modeled in the fashion show. Note the Hollywood romance plotline of one of the following captions: “When the boy friend whisks you away from the beach party to ballroom, this informal evening gown in ...
... Rafu Shimpo and Kashu Mainichi. The UCLA versus UC–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 ...
... Rafu Shimpo explained its viewpoint on the importance of Japanese versus American dress. Significantly, this editorial was placed next to the biographies and pictures of 1941's ten Nisei Week queen finalists, all of whom wore American ...
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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 | |