Pure beauty judging race in Japanese American beauty pageants

Introduction: Negotiating racial hybridity in community beauty pageants

Race work and the effort of racial claims

The Japanese American community in transition

Japanese American beauty pageants in historical perspective

Cultural impostors and eggs : race without culture and culture without race

Patrolling bodies : the social control of race through gender

The "ambassadress" queen : moving authentically between racial communities in the United States and Japan

Percentages, parts, and power : racial eligibility rules and local versions of Japanese Americanness in context

Conclusion: Japanese Americanness, beauty pageants, and race work