Background of Miss Asian America

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A 2010 e-book through cultural anthropologist Afia A. Ofori-Mensa studied the relationships among race, gender, and U.S. National identification using the Miss Asian America Pageant. She discovered that "panethnic pageants like Miss Asian America" which came of age inside the 80s plays an essential position within the charter of national identification "through best femininity, in each embodied and rhetorical methods." For the Asian American network, the Miss Asian America Pageant is the "only cultural institution yearly endowing one female and her racialized, gendered, and classed frame, the energy to symbolize a whole nation." The festival stays one of the few national occasions that permit for a frontal show of non-mainstream ethnic way of life for the American public in which contestants wear cultural garb and reinvigorate background ties via network-based totally initiatives, service mastering, and presentations of their background language.

Cultural integration and the creation of neoliberal values have also been tested thru the prism of the Miss Asian America Pageant extensively by means of women's research scholars. Professor Nhi T. Lieu, in reading Miss Asian America pointed to the festival's role in promoting capitalism and neoliberal values provided within conventional contexts together with the usage of the Vietnamese ladies's garment known as the ao dai. Lieu adds that the function of technology in splendor pageants additionally enabled the advent of modernity and client items to many Asian American families in attendance at competition events.

In reviewing the Cold War legacy and its courting with Asian American groups inside the United States, Ofori-Mensa argues that the Asian American community was capable of "utilize pageants strategically, by means of insisting at the centrality of human beings of coloration to U.S. Country wide identification, and via re-imagining the country as a transnational space in which human beings of shade aren't systematically excluded."