{"id":40540,"date":"2015-03-22T01:34:37","date_gmt":"2015-03-22T01:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=40540"},"modified":"2015-03-22T17:54:27","modified_gmt":"2015-03-22T17:54:27","slug":"miss-universe-japan-spectacle-race-and-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=40540","title":{"rendered":"Miss Universe Japan \u2014 spectacle, race, and dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gritsandsushi.com\/2015\/03\/19\/miss-universe-japan-spectacle-race-and-dreams\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Miss Universe Japan \u2014 spectacle, race, and dreams<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gritsandsushi.com\" target=\"_blank\">Grits and Sushi: my musings on okinawa, race, militarization, and blackness<\/a><br \/>\n2015-03-19<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gritsandsushi.com\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Mitzi Uehara Carter<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The newly crowned Miss Universe Japan is Blackanese. No, she\u2019s Japanese. No, she\u2019s Haafu. Multiracial? Mixed? Japanese enough to represent <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Japan\" target=\"_blank\">Japan<\/a> in a silly beauty contest? <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ariana_Miyamoto\" target=\"_blank\">Ariana Miyamoto<\/a> is from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nagasaki\" target=\"_blank\">Nagasaki, Japan<\/a> and her win has whipped up both excitement and disdain. The issue of representation has emerged yet again for those anxious about the nation\u2019s performance on the global beauty stage. National beauty pageants are always a site where race and gender intersect in messy ways and the spectacle of \u201cnational authentic beauty\u201d in international pageants can be even more convoluted. Miyamoto\u2019s racial difference has sparked a series of interesting questions about how to identify \u201cJapaneseness\u201d through the body of women.<\/p>\n<p>Weather you\u2019re a pageant supporter or not, you can\u2019t ignore how potent the social commentary these kinds of wins can be in everyday discourse. A careful analysis can tell us more about the framing of race in mainstream Japanese and transnational media circuits. While people outside Japan seem to be generally fascinated by the fact that this Japanese woman with her obvious African ancestry has been named \u201cMs. Universe Japan,\u201d the commentary in Japanese social media is a bit more varied and well, echoes some made in the US, when a New Yorker of Indian descent, Nina Davaluri, won the Ms. America pageant in 2013&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/gritsandsushi.com\/2015\/03\/19\/miss-universe-japan-spectacle-race-and-dreams\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miss Universe Japan \u2014 spectacle, race, and dreams Grits and Sushi: my musings on okinawa, race, militarization, and blackness 2015-03-19 Mitzi Uehara Carter The newly crowned Miss Universe Japan is Blackanese. No, she\u2019s Japanese. No, she\u2019s Haafu. Multiracial? Mixed? Japanese enough to represent Japan in a silly beauty contest? Ariana Miyamoto is from Nagasaki, Japan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,16,8],"tags":[19675,19701,1793,19676,586,19702],"class_list":["post-40540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-asia","category-media-archive","tag-ariana-miyamoto","tag-grits-and-sushi","tag-japan","tag-miss-universe","tag-mitzi-uehara-carter","tag-nina-davaluri"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}