Beauty Queens: Gender, Ethnicity, and Transnational Modernities at the Miss India USA Pageant
@article{Mani2006BeautyQG, title={Beauty Queens: Gender, Ethnicity, and Transnational Modernities at the Miss India USA Pageant}, author={B. Mani}, journal={positions: east asia cultures critique}, year={2006}, volume={14}, pages={717 - 747} }
At the 1999 Miss India USA pageant, held in San Jose, California, more than six hundred people streamed into the ballroom of the five-star Fairmont Hotel. Billed in the pageant booklet as an event of “great social and cultural value” and as “the most glamorous Indian function in the country,”1 tickets to Miss India USA quickly sold out to a maximum capacity audience. Family and friends of the contestants, local businesspeople, community leaders, and pageant enthusiasts milled around their… CONTINUE READING
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