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.