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- Title
JAPANESE AMERICAN BEAUTY PAGEANTS AND MINSTREL SHOWS: THE PERFORMANCE OF GENDER AND RACE BY NISEI YOUTH DURING WORLD WAR II.
- Authors
McANDREW, MALIA
- Abstract
The article discusses the participation of Nisei, or second-generation Japanese Americans, in beauty pageants and minstrel shows held in internment camps during World War II. Particular focus is given to evidence drawn from newspapers produced by prisoners in internment camps. According to the author, these performances and publications offered Nisei an opportunity to display their patriotism and assert their identities as Americans, sometimes by denigrating African Americans as a racial Other.
- Subjects
JAPANESE Americans -- History; CONCENTRATION camps; INTERNMENT of Japanese Americans, 1942-1945; JAPANESE American children; BEAUTY contests; MINSTREL shows; TWENTIETH century
- Publication
Journal of the History of Childhood & Youth, 2014, Vol 7, Issue 1, p42
- ISSN
1939-6724
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/hcy.2014.0010