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Pure beauty (Record no. 248387)

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000 -LEADER
fixed length control field 02244nam a2200409 a 4500
082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 791.6/2
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME
Personal name King-O'Riain, Rebecca Chiyoko.
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Pure beauty
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication Minneapolis :
Name of publisher University of Minnesota Press,
Year of publication c2006.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Number of Pages xiii, 276 p. :
Other physical details ill.
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Introduction: Negotiating racial hybridity in community beauty pageants -- Race work and the effort of racial claims -- The Japanese American community in transition -- Japanese American beauty pageants in historical perspective -- Cultural impostors and eggs : race without culture and culture without race -- Patrolling bodies : the social control of race through gender -- The "ambassadress" queen : moving authentically between racial communities in the United States and Japan -- Percentages, parts, and power : racial eligibility rules and local versions of Japanese Americanness in context -- Conclusion: Japanese Americanness, beauty pageants, and race work.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term Beauty contests
Topical Term Japanese Americans.
Topical Term Japanese American women.
Topical Term Race awareness
856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Uniform Resource Identifier http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10173885

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