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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... world. For anyone who has endured the same, this book is for you. It gives me great pleasure to acknowledge all the individuals and institutions that have made this work possible. Especially vital have been the Chi Alpha Delta ...
... world of the university during racial segregation. Chapter 2, “'I Protest': Anna May Wong and the Performance of Modernity,” investigates the historical circumstances that allowed Wong to portray a Chinese American surgeon and to grace ...
... World Fairs colonial “Philippine Village” exhibitions. Thus Filipina Americans had to contend with American colonial occupation and the ensuing racial fantasies concocted around their bodies. Given this gendered legacy, Asian American ...
... world of the university, since it allowed them to place fourth in the competition, the best they had ever done. Although the women of Chi Alpha Delta would not have recognized the term cultural citizenship, the concept as we understand ...
... World War II, Chicago-area Japanese Americans founded Scene magazine to counter those harmful stereotypes. For those who do not bear the dominant markers of national belonging —in the case of the U.S. nonwhite, female—such narratives of ...
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 | |