Making an American Festival - Chinese New Year in San Franciscos Chinatown

Zusatztext "Yeh's fine study will help us comprehend such crucial issues as ethnic identity! racial negotiation! and cultural infusion in our multicultural America." Informationen zum Autor Chiou-ling Yeh is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at San Diego State University. Zusammenfassung Offers a history of the largest annual Chinese celebration in the United States - the Chinese New Year parade and beauty pageant in San Francisco. This book provides a picture of how an ethnic community shaped and was shaped by transnational and national politics, economics, ethnic movements, feminism, and queer activism. Inhaltsverzeichnis list of illustrations acknowledgments Introduction / Making Multicultural America: Cold War Politics! Ethnic Celebrations! and Chinese America 1. Transnational Celebrations in Changing Political Climates 2. "In the Traditions of China and in the Freedom of America": The Making of the Chinese New Year Festival 3. Constructing a "Model Minority" Identity: The Miss Chinatown U.S.A. Beauty Pageant 4. Yellow Power: Race! Class! Gender! and Activism 5. Heated Debate on the Ethnic Beauty Pageant 6. Hybridity in Culture! Memory! and Politics 7. Selling Chineseness and Marketing Chinese New Year: Corporate Sponsorship! Television Broadcasts! and Counter Memory 8. "We Are One Family": Queerness! Transnationalism! and Identity Politics Epilogue / Post-Cold War Celebrations notes bibliography index

Product details

• Authors: Chiou-Ling Yeh, Yeh Chiou-ling
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.09.2008
• EAN: 9780520253513
• ISBN: 978-0-520-25351-3
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; China, Sociology, California, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, Sociology: customs & traditions, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Customs & Traditions, Social and cultural history, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Cultural studies: customs and traditions, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Biracial & Multiracial Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies