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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... hybrid entities in their own right. Through hybridity, the women's uses of mainstream cultural forms are transformed into distinctly Asian American female practices. Although the performance of cultural citizenship and modernity ...
... hybrid cultural forms.9 Though part of an intrinsically heteronormative conservative organization, the women of Chi Alpha Delta nonetheless made visible and called attention to hidden racialized structures within the supposedly ...
... hybrid entities that exhibited both American and ethnic specific traits. These cultural acts call attention to the instability of hegemonic categories and practices by making visible the ways in which law, racialization, and gendering ...
... Hybrid cultural citizenship was understood differently depending on mainstream or ethnic community context. In the context of 1941, the eve of American participation in World War II, such supposedly Japanese patriotism was suspect. In ...
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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 | |