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Crowning the nice girl : gender, ethnicity, and culture in Hawaii's Cherry Blossom Festival
- Title
- Crowning the nice girl : gender, ethnicity, and culture in Hawaii's Cherry Blossom Festival / Christine R. Yano.
- Author
- Yano, Christine Reiko.
- Publication
- Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, ©2006.
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- Description
- viii, 294 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- "After World War II, Japanese Americans in Hawai'i sought to carve a positive niche of public citizenship in the community. In 1953 members of the Honolulu Japanese Junior Chamber of Commerce and their wives created a beauty contest, the Cherry Blossom Festival (CBF) Queen Pageant, which quickly became an annual spectacle for the growing urban population of Honolulu. Crowning the Nice Girl analyzes the pageant through its decades of development to the present within multiple frameworks of gender, class, and race/ethnicity. Drawing on extensive archival research; interviews with CBF queens, contestants, and organizers; and participant observation in the Fiftieth Annual Festival as a volunteer, Christine Yano paints a complex portrait of not only a beauty pageant, but also a community. The study begins with the subject of beauty pageants in general and Asian American beauty pageants in particular, interrogating the issues they raise, embedding them within their histories, and examining them as part of a global culture that has taken its model from the Miss America contest.Yano follows the pageant throughout the decades into the 1990s, adding corresponding "herstories"--extensive narratives drawn from interviews with CBF queens. She concludes by framing issues of race, ethnicity, spectacle, and community within the intertwined themes of niceness and banality" -- Publisher's description.
- Subject
- Cherry Blossom Festival (Honolulu, Hawaii) > History
- Cherry Blossom Festival (Honolulu, Hawaii)
- Beauty contests > Hawaii > Honolulu
- Japanese American women > Hawaii > Honolulu > Ethnic identity
- Japanese American women > Hawaii > Honolulu > Psychology
- Japanese American women > Hawaii > Honolulu > Social conditions
- 71.33 women (sociology)
- Beauty contests
- Japanese American women > Psychology
- Japanese American women > Social conditions
- Manners and customs
- Race relations
- Ethnische Identität
- Soziale Situation
- Ethnische Beziehungen
- Japanerin
- Schönheitswettbewerb
- Meisjes
- Exotisme
- Schoonheidsideaal
- Japanners
- Koninginnen (vorstinnen)
- Honolulu (Hawaii) > Race relations
- Honolulu (Hawaii) > Social life and customs
- Hawaii > Honolulu
- Honolulu, Hawaii
- Hawaii
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-286) and index.
- Contents
- Prologue : Sansei dreams of beauty queens and beyond -- Beauty pageants as spectacles of gender, race/ethnicity, and community -- Historicizing the Cherry Blossom Festival : engendering the American way of life in postwar Hawai'i -- The Cherry Blossom Festival as center stage in Hawai'i : 1950s-1960s -- Herstories I : 1950s-1960s -- Struggles toward reform : 1970s-1990s -- Herstories II : 1970s-1990s -- Controversy and reform : finding a place in the twenty-first century -- Herstories III : 1999-2000s -- Crowning the "nice girl" : the politics and poetics of banality -- Appendix: Cherry Blossom Festival queens, 1953-2005.
- ISBN
- 0824830075
- 9780824830076
- 0824830598
- 9780824830595
- LCCN
- 2005037657
- 9780824830076
- 9780824830595
- OCLC
- ocm62782161
- 62782161
- SCSB-1402078
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library