"You Can Never Be Too Rich or Too Thin": Popular and Consumer Culture and the Americanization of Asian American Girls and Young Women From: The Journal of Negro Education | Date: October 1, 2003| Author: Vaught, Sabina; Lee, Stacey J | Copyright Howard University Fall 2003. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

First- and second-generation youth of color are vulnerable to racialized images of gender and sexuality as reflected in and perpetuated by dominant forms of popular and consumer cultures. These popular images inform the process of Americanization, including racialized sexualization, for first- and second-generation Americans. This paper examines the way first- and second-generation Asian American girls and young women interpret and reinterpret popular representations of their positions in the...

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