Making an American festival : Chinese New Year in San Francisco's Chinatown /
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Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
[2008]
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Table of Contents:
- Making multicultural America : Cold War politics, ethnic celebrations, and Chinese America
- Transnational celebrations in changing political climates
- "In the traditions of China and in the freedom of America" : the making of the Chinese New Year festival
- Constructing a "model minority" identity : the Miss Chinatown U.S.A. beauty pageant
- Yellow power : race, class, gender, and activism
- Heated debate on the ethnic beauty pageant
- Hybridity in culture, memory, and politics
- Selling Chineseness and marketing Chinese New Year : corporate sponsorship, television broadcasts, and counter memory
- "We are one family" : queerness, transnationalism, and identity politics
- Post-Cold War celebrations.