Crowning the Nice Girl: Gender, Ethnicity, and Culture in Hawai'i's Cherry Blossom Festival by Christine R. Yano

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

Christine R. Yano

294 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction sociology informative reflective medium-paced
Powered by AI (Beta)
Loading...

Description

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 Blo...

Read more

Community Reviews

Loading...

Content Warnings

Loading...