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

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

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
About the Author

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