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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... cheongsam, her hair is coiffed in a contemporary American style and she sports fashionable American makeup. She is the first Chinese American queen at a presidential inaugural parade and, as far as she can tell, is the only such racial ...
... cheongsam tops and marching-band pants. Performing at the opening of Los Angeles' Union Station and other citywide events, the Mei Wah Girls attempted to make visible the historical Asian American presence as well as counteract the ...
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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 | |