Crowning the nice girl : gender, ethnicity, and culture in Hawaii's Cherry Blossom Festival
Christine Reiko Yano (Author)
Annotation After World War II, Japanese Americans in Hawai'i sought to carve a positive niche of public citizenship in the community. In 1953 members of the Honolulu Japanese Junior Chamber of Commerce and their wives created a beauty contest, the Cherry Blossom Festival (CBF) Queen Pageant, which quickly became an annual spectacle for the growing urban population of Honolulu
eBook, English, 2006
University of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu, 2006