Crowning the Nice Girl: Gender, Ethnicity, and Culture in Hawai‘i’s Cherry Blossom Festival 9780824862060

After World War II, Japanese Americans in Hawai‘i sought to carve a positive niche of public citizenship in the communit

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Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Prologue
Chapter One. Beauty Pageants as Spectacles of Gender, Race/Ethnicity, and Community
Chapter Two. Historicizing the Cherry Blossom Festival
Chapter Three. The Cherry Blossom Festival as Center Stage in Hawai‘i
Chapter Four. Herstories I
Chapter Five. Struggles toward Reform
Chapter Six. Herstories II
Chapter Seven. Controversy and Reform
Chapter Eight. Herstories III
Chapter Nine. Crowning the “Nice Girl”
Notes
Appendix
References
Index
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