Making an American Festival - Chinese New Year in San Francisco′s Chinatown

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-520-25351-3
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 225 mm, Gewicht: 456 g

This provocative history of the largest annual Chinese celebration in the United States—the Chinese New Year parade and beauty pageant in San Francisco—opens a new window onto the evolution of one Chinese American community over the second half of the twentieth century. In a vividly detailed account that incorporates many different voices and perspectives, Chiou-ling Yeh explores the origins of these public events and charts how, from their beginning in 1953, they developed as a result of Chinese business community ties with American culture, business, and politics. What emerges is a fascinating picture of how an ethnic community shaped and was shaped by transnational and national politics, economics, ethnic movements, feminism, and queer activism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Yeh, Chiou-Ling

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie des Brauchtums und der Traditionen

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

Über Autor(innen)

Chiou-ling Yeh is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at San Diego State University.