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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... immigration exclusion. As an Indonesian American woman, which signifies that I come from a numerically small American racial minority group, I did not grow up with Asianethnic community practices and was fascinated when I discovered ...
... immigration exclusion and racial segregation, the adoption of such cultural practices by racial minority women cannot be interpreted merely as assimilation but must be seen as a set of transformative social acts that constituted Asian ...
... immigration and naturalization to people of Asian descent. Historical Legacies of Being Asian American Linda Yuen waves from her float at the 1957 Eisenhower inaugural parade. Dressed in a cheongsam, her hair is coiffed in a ...
... immigrant versus American citizen.9 Race and gender hierarchy intersected with the conceptual immigrant to create new categories of immigration exclusion. The very first American law to restrict immigration, the Page Law (1875) ...
... immigrant generation. Third, American immigration exclusion from 1924 to 1965 meant that any population increase would ... immigration and citizenship exclusion, construction as forever-foreign men, and present-day racial segregation and ...
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 | |