Pure beauty : judging race in Japanese American beauty pageants /

Rebecca Chiyoko King-O'Riain studies Japanese American community beauty pageants in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, and Honolulu to discover how these pageants seek to maintain racial and ethnic purity amid shifting notions of cultural identity. Pure Beauty shows how racial and gendered me...

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Main Author: King-O'Riain, Rebecca Chiyoko (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2006
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