A Feeling of Belonging Asian American Women's Public Culture, 1930-1960

Name: A Feeling of Belonging
Author: Shirley Jennifer Lim

Auteur: Shirley Jennifer Lim

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Shirley Jennifer Lim Andrew Milner

Engels
Paperback
9780814751947
01 december 2005
241 pagina's

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Highlighting the cultural activities of young, predominantly unmarried Asian American women from 1930 to 1960, this book traces the diverse ways in which these young women sought claim to cultural citizenship, exploring such topics as the nation's first Asian American sorority, Chi Alpha Delta; and Asian American youth culture and beauty pageants.

When we imagine the activities of Asian American women in the mid-twentieth century, our first thoughts are not of skiing, beauty pageants, magazine reading, and sororities. Yet, Shirley Jennifer Lim argues, these are precisely the sorts of leisure practices many second generation Chinese, Filipina, and Japanese American women engaged in during this time.
In A Feeling of Belonging, Lim highlights the cultural activities of young, predominantly unmarried Asian American women from 1930 to 1960. This period marks a crucial generation—the first in which American-born Asians formed a critical mass and began to make their presence felt in the United States. Though they were distinguished from previous generations by their American citizenship, it was only through these seemingly mundane “American”activities that they were able to overcome two-dimensional stereotypes of themselves as kimono-clad “Orientals.”
Lim traces the diverse ways in which these young women sought claim to cultural citizenship, exploring such topics as the nation's first Asian American sorority, Chi Alpha Delta; the cultural work of Chinese American actress Anna May Wong; Asian American youth culture and beauty pageants; and the achievement of fame of three foreign-born Asian women in the late 1950s. By wearing poodle skirts, going to the beach, and producing magazines, she argues, they asserted not just their American-ness, but their humanity: a feeling of belonging.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 01 december 2005
Aantal pagina's: 241
Illustraties: Nee

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Hoofdauteur: Shirley Jennifer Lim
Tweede Auteur: Andrew Milner
Hoofduitgeverij: New York University Press

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Originele titel: A Feeling of Belonging: Asian American Women's Popular Culture, 1930-1960

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Editie: illustrated edition
Extra groot lettertype: Nee
Product breedte: 153 mm
Product lengte: 229 mm
Studieboek: Nee
Verpakking breedte: 159 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 13 mm
Verpakking lengte: 235 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 249 g

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EAN: 9780814751947

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Categorieën: Mens & Maatschappij

Geschiedenis

Sociologie

Sociale & Culturele geschiedenis

Sociale theorie

Regio's & Landen

Noord-, Midden-, & Zuid-Amerika

Boeken
Taal: Engels
Boek, ebook of luisterboek?: Boek
Periode: ca. 1920-1939, ca. 1950-1999
Land: Verenigde Staten

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