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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... racial minority group, I did not grow up with Asianethnic community practices and was fascinated when I discovered ... racial minorities. Having lived outside the United States for most of my childhood, I became acutely aware that ...
... race through the remaking of mainstream culture. Although it is a serious work of American history, this book risks ... racial minority woman, clothes, books, movies, magazines, gossip, and get-togethers have all jostled me out of ...
... racial minority women cannot be interpreted merely as assimilation but must be seen as a set of transformative ... racial minority group such as Asian Americans represents and portrays race is of the utmost significance since race ...
... racially marked subjects, Asian American women, who have been rendered invisible in ... racial difference, just as equating women with European Americans denies the ... minority community sources a priority. Sorority participation, beauty ...
... racial segregation. Chapter 2, “'I Protest': Anna May Wong and the ... minority queen present. The American liberal creed promulgated a narrative ... race, class, and gender were incorporated into the American body politic. As ...
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 | |