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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... youth popular and consumer cultures. Chapter 4, “Contested Beauty,” elucidates beauty culture during the Cold War era. Finally, Chapter 5, “Riding the Crest of an Oriental Wave,” examines Asian American women during both the resurgence ...
... youth groups all over Southern California. In the 1930s, since mainstream clubs affiliated with schools, communities, and national organizations were not open to Japanese American membership, Nisei clubs were established. In the 1930s ...
... youth organizations, movie theaters, and swimming pools, many became inadvertent agitators for racial equality. Stemming from marginalized populations, acts of cultural citizenship encompassed practices ranging from learning how to host ...
... youth (European American with middle-class cultural markers), the interwar rating-dating system marked success by the number of one-on-one dates. Matching capitalistic and liberal imperatives of the time, one wanted numerous individual ...
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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 | |