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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... civil rights organization, the Chinese American Citizens Alliance, held a queen contest as the centerpiece of its annual meeting. Young Chinese American women were called upon to demonstrate the community's progressive neo-liberalism by ...
... citizens of Japanese ancestry shall be recognized as such. —Masao Satow, The Courier, New Year's Day 1934 As the Issei ... civil rights in the United States.71 As exemplified by newspapers, correspondence, club activities, and cultural ...
... civil rights group, the Japanese American Citizen's League, Nisei Week is the Los Angeles Japanese American community's annual celebration named in honor of the American-born generations.89 As the Nisei Week queen personified 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 | |