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The managed hand
Two women, virtual strangers, sit hand-in-hand across a narrow table, both intent on the same thing-achieving the perfect manicure. Encounters like this occur thousands of times across the United States in nail salons increasingly owned and operated by Asian immigrants. This study looks closely for the first time at these intimate encounters, focusing on New York City, where such nail salons have become ubiquitous. Drawing from rich and compelling interviews, Miliann Kang takes us inside the nail industry, asking such questions as: Why have nail salons become so popular? Why do so many Asian women, and Korean women in particular, provide these services? Kang discovers multiple motivations for the manicure-from the pampering of white middle class women to the artistic self-expression of working class African American women to the mass consumption of body-related services. Contrary to notions of beauty service establishments as spaces for building community among women, The Managed Hand finds that while tentative and fragile solidarities can emerge across the manicure table, they generally give way to even more powerful divisions of race, class, and immigration.
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The Managed Hand: The Commercialization of Bodies and Emotions in Korean Immigrant-Owned Nail Salons
This ethnographic study of service interactions in Korean immigrant women-owned nail salons in New York City introduces the concept \"body labor\" to designate a type of gendered work that involves the management of emotions in body-related service provision. The author explores variation in the performance of body labor caused by the intersection of the gendered processes of beauty service work with the racialized and class-specific service expectations of diverse customers. The study examines three distinct patterns of service provision that are shaped by racial and class inequalities between women: (1) high-service body labor, (2) expressive body labor, and (3) routinized body labor. These patterns demonstrate that a caring, attentive style of emotional display is dominant in workplaces governed by white, middle-class \"feeling rules\" but that different racial and class locations call forth other forms of gendered emotional management that focus on displaying respect, reciprocity, fairness, competence, and efficiency.
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Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire
According to Imada, \"hula circuits\" have woven complicated connections between indigenous culture and the forces of U.S. imperialism both inside and outside of Hawaii, maintaining a sense of Hawaiian culture and nationhood, while at the same time colluding with and normalizing colonial powers and desires. The book is organized more or less chronologically, tracing hula circuits through the institutionalization of hula training in the Hawaiian royal court, to the showcasing of hula through continental and intercontinental tours, hula's representation by military photographers and Hollywood moguls, the \"imperial hospitality\" of the now ubiquitous tourist luau, and the politicization of hula in Hawaiian struggles for self-determination and environmental and antimilitarization protests.
Journal Article
The Managed Hand
Two women, virtual strangers, sit hand-in-hand across a narrow table, both intent on the same thing-achieving the perfect manicure. Encounters like this occur thousands of times across the United States in nail salons increasingly owned and operated by Asian immigrants. This study looks closely for the first time at these intimate encounters, focusing on New York City, where such nail salons have become ubiquitous. Drawing from rich and compelling interviews, Miliann Kang takes us inside the nail industry, asking such questions as: Why have nail salons become so popular? Why do so many Asian women, and Korean women in particular, provide these services? Kang discovers multiple motivations for the manicure-from the pampering of white middle class women to the artistic self-expression of working class African American women to the mass consumption of body-related services. Contrary to notions of beauty service establishments as spaces for building community among women, The Managed Hand finds that while tentative and fragile solidarities can emerge across the manicure table, they generally give way to even more powerful divisions of race, class, and immigration.
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Two Birthdays
Instead they send cards on Mother's Day folding her inside pastel envelopes that seal her midnight howls at Japanese soldiers pulling comfort from the skirts of village girls and muffle her strange lullabies to Baby Sister, dead from diarrhea and cold war before she could claim even one birthday.
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