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Pure Beauty - Judging Race in Japanese American Beauty Pageants (Paperback)
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Pure Beauty - Judging Race in Japanese American Beauty Pageants (Paperback)
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Loot Price R566
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With a low rate of immigration and a high rate of interracial
marriage, Japanese Americans today compose the Asian ethnic group
with the largest proportion of mixed-race members. Within Japanese
American communities, increased participation by mixed-race
members, along with concerns about overassimilation, has led to a
search for cultural authenticity, giving new answers to the
question, Who is Japanese American? In Pure Beauty, Rebecca Chiyoko
King-O'Riain tackles this question by studying a cultural
institution: Japanese American community beauty pageants in San
Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, and Honolulu. King-O'Riain employs
rich ethnographic fieldwork to discover how these pageants seek to
maintain racial and ethnic purity amid shifting notions of cultural
identity. She uses revealing in-depth interviews with candidates,
queens, and community members, her experiences as a pageant
committee member, and archival research--including Japanese and
English newspapers, museum collections, private photo albums, and
mementos--to establish both the importance and impossibility of
racial purity. King-O'Riain examines racial eligibility rules and
tests, which encompass not only ancestry but also residency,
community service, and culture, and traces the history of pageants
throughout the United States. Pure Beauty shows how racial and
gendered meanings are enacted through the pageants, and reveals
their impact on Japanese American men, women, and children.
King-O'Riain concludes that the mixed-race challenge to racial
understandings of Japanese Americanness does not necessarily mean
an end to race as we know it and asserts that race is work--created
and re-created in a social context.Ultimately, she determines that
the concept of race, fragile though it may be, is still one of the
categories by which Japanese Americans are judged. Rebecca Chiyoko
King-O'Riain is lecturer in sociology at the National University of
Ireland, Maynooth.
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