Crowning The Nice Girl
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Crowning The Nice Girl
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Author : Christine R. Yano
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2006-06-30
Crowning The Nice Girl written by Christine R. Yano and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-06-30 with Social Science categories.
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. Crowning the Nice Girl analyzes the pageant through its decades of development to the present within multiple frameworks of gender, class, and race/ethnicity. Drawing on extensive archival research; interviews with CBF queens, contestants, and organizers; and participant observation in the Fiftieth Annual Festival as a volunteer, Christine Yano paints a complex portrait of not only a beauty pageant, but also a community. The study begins with the subject of beauty pageants in general and Asian American beauty pageants in particular, interrogating the issues they raise, embedding them within their histories, and examining them as part of a global culture that has taken its model from the Miss America contest.Yano follows the pageant throughout the decades into the 1990s, adding corresponding "herstories"—extensive narratives drawn from interviews with CBF queens. She concludes by framing issues of race, ethnicity, spectacle, and community within the intertwined themes of niceness and banality.
Crown
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Author : Derrick Barnes
language : en
Publisher: Agate Publishing
Release Date : 2017-10-10
Crown written by Derrick Barnes and has been published by Agate Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-10 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Named one of the best books of 2017 by NPR, the Huffington Post, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, the Horn Book Magazine, the News & Observer, BookPage, Chicago Public Library, and more The barbershop is where the magic happens. Boys go in as lumps of clay and, with princely robes draped around their shoulders, a dab of cool shaving cream on their foreheads, and a slow, steady cut, they become royalty. That crisp yet subtle line makes boys sharper, more visible, more aware of every great thing that could happen to them when they look good: lesser grades turn into As; girls take notice; even a mother’s hug gets a little tighter. Everyone notices. A fresh cut makes boys fly. This rhythmic, read-aloud title is an unbridled celebration of the self-esteem, confidence, and swagger boys feel when they leave the barber’s chair—a tradition that places on their heads a figurative crown, beaming with jewels, that confirms their brilliance and worth and helps them not only love and accept themselves but also take a giant step toward caring how they present themselves to the world. The fresh cuts. That’s where it all begins. Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut is a high-spirited, engaging salute to the beautiful, raw, assured humanity of black boys and how they see themselves when they approve of their reflections in the mirror.
You Should See Me In A Crown
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Author : Leah Johnson
language : en
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Release Date : 2020-06-02
You Should See Me In A Crown written by Leah Johnson and has been published by Scholastic Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-02 with Young Adult Fiction categories.
A TIME Magazine Best YA Book of All Time A Stonewall Honor Book A Reese's Book Club YA Pick Liz Lighty has always believed she's too black, too poor, too awkward to shine in her small, rich, prom-obsessed midwestern town. But it's okay -- Liz has a plan that will get her out of Campbell, Indiana, forever: attend the uber-elite Pennington College, play in their world-famous orchestra, and become a doctor. But when the financial aid she was counting on unexpectedly falls through, Liz's plans come crashing down . . . until she's reminded of her school's scholarship for prom king and queen. There's nothing Liz wants to do less than endure a gauntlet of social media trolls, catty competitors, and humiliating public events, but despite her devastating fear of the spotlight she's willing to do whatever it takes to get to Pennington. The only thing that makes it halfway bearable is the new girl in school, Mack. She's smart, funny, and just as much of an outsider as Liz. But Mack is also in the running for queen. Will falling for the competition keep Liz from her dreams . . . or make them come true?
Rebuilding The Crown
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Author : Timothy C.J. Murphy
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2012-12-17
Rebuilding The Crown written by Timothy C.J. Murphy and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-17 with Fiction categories.
It is the spring of 1952, Mick Joyce, Tom Sullivan and Kate Collins are leaving Ireland with a youthful exuberance in the hope of making their fortune. England is still in economic turmoil after the war but still fares much better than the Emerald Isle. In the Ireland of the nineteen fifties the cottages are still thatched and if there is money in the house it is slated. As a compromise between the rich and the not so rich you might see a corrugated iron roof. Either way Ireland is an empire a few centuries behind our closest neighbour. So it is common place to see the ferry boat the St. David full of Irish, after Christmas, heading to England to earn the Kings shilling. The tears flow each time Irelands sons and daughters depart. Hearts are heavy but this is Ireland of the nineteen fifties. The mothers and wives are left behind to keep the nest together from season to season with an ancient sadness that they never really spoke of. Over the next ten years their lives would intertwine intermittently. The story that ensues is one of love, laughter, drink, hard work and loss. The book also tells of their encounters with other emigrants, Irish, African, West Indians, a Russian woman who could fill a cement mixer faster than any Irish navvy and a Pole who little by little created a life for himself and his Irish lady from nothing. It was in one of Londons dingy bed sits that Tom and Mick first settled into. They grubbed hard, drank by the imperial gallon, fought in the pubs and on the streets of London as if re-enacting their modern version of the Irish War of Independence on foreign soil. By night they tore London asunder and were on site the next morning at 8a.m. to rebuild it from the ground up. This is the story of the life of Tom Sullivan now in his senior years having returned to his home town of Tralee. A man of wisdom self educated in the ways of the world, he tells his story with a wit and honesty that will bring both tears of laughter and sadness to the reader.
Her Husband S Crown
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Author : Katherine Namuddu
language : en
Publisher: Partridge Africa
Release Date : 2014-12-12
Her Husband S Crown written by Katherine Namuddu and has been published by Partridge Africa this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-12 with Fiction categories.
A fascinating exploration of the changing face of social customs and gender politics. Kirkus Reviews Nansamba is married off aged sixteen to young Ggalabuzi from a neighboring village. It is an arranged marriage in 1940s rural Uganda and she works hard to build a prosperous household together with her easy-going and hardworking husband. Twelve years into the marriage, Ggalabuzi exercises his male right to enter into a second marriage without telling his wife; and does so with her younger sister Mucwa. Nansamba navigates this hazardous marital and familial road with extraordinary wisdom, courage and dignity. At twenty-eight, educated, city-born Biiti is considered an old maid. Her anxious relatives find her a rural husband past his prime and with a secret history. He soon destroys their marriage and she abandons it to become a successful businesswoman and anchor of her family. For a quarter of a century relatives, friends and in-laws from Nansamba and Biitis families crisscross each others lives and create much drama and many children, including four sets of twins.
The Thorn Crown Murder
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Author : Anthony Wolff
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2014-09-22
The Thorn Crown Murder written by Anthony Wolff and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-22 with Fiction categories.
Few crimes are as difficult to solve than those which are committed under the guise of religion. A group of people resort to theft, blackmail, sadism, and murder to enrich themselves while they present the face of loving care and devotion to spiritual principles to the public The detectives are engaged to solve crimes committed against two disparate victims. The crimes are baffling and seem to be unrelated. In reaching the dangerous solution to The Thorn Crown Murder, the detectives expose the full extent of the criminal conspiracy.
Rosalind Morton Or The Mystery Of Ivy Crown
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Author : Alice Kate Roland
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1898
Rosalind Morton Or The Mystery Of Ivy Crown written by Alice Kate Roland and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1898 with categories.
Crown Of Thorns
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Author : Stephane Groueff
language : en
Publisher: Madison Books
Release Date : 1998-08-06
Crown Of Thorns written by Stephane Groueff and has been published by Madison Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-08-06 with History categories.
A fascinating biography of Bulgaria's tragic monarch, Boris III, based on private correspondence and extensive interviews with members of the Bulgarian royal family. The son of King Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Boris became king after the first World War. Noted for defying Hitler wishes for Bulgaria's Jews, the popular king died mysteriously in 1943 after a stormy meeting with Hitler.
The Starless Crown
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Author : Jane Roseboom
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1889
The Starless Crown written by Jane Roseboom and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1889 with Marriage categories.
Starstone The Crown Prince
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Author : Veronica Merlin
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date :
Starstone The Crown Prince written by Veronica Merlin and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.