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<div class="field-item"><u style="font-size: 14px;">Jan. 15, 7 p.m., Cartoon Room, Ohio Union</u></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>Talk: "Becoming Miss America: South Asians, Beauty Pageants, and Cultures of Citizenship"</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>Baki Mani, </b>Associate Professor of English, Swarthmore College, author of <i>Aspiring to Home</i> (Stanford 2012), a study about South Asian Americans, diaspora, and belonging. <a href="http://www.swarthmore.edu/Humanities/bmani1/book.html"><span style="color: windowtext;">http://www.swarthmore.edu/Humanities/bmani1/book.html</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Description of Talk: What does it mean to be Miss America? In this talk, I examine the central role that beauty pageants hold for first- and second</span><span style="font-size: 14px;">-generation South
Asian Americans. For young South Asian women onstage, pageants are a means to proclaim their sense of belonging - as racial minorities and as women - to normative ideals of U.S. citizenship. For first-generation South Asian audience members and pageant sponsors,
these young women represent the class mobility of an established immigrant group. I discuss the iconic figure of the beauty queen in relation to the annual Miss India U.S.A. pageants in New York and California, as well as in relation to the Miss India pageants
in India. Delineating these transnational networks of beauty, culture and capital enables us to understand why Miss America 2013, Nina Davuluri, is celebrated and condemned for her embodiment of what it means to be American.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Refreshments will be served. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><u style="font-size: 14px;">Jan. 16, noon-1:30 168 Dulles</u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>Workshop, Discussion, and Lunch with Prof. Baki Mani</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14px;">To receive the reading, please see: <a href="https://osu.box.com/s/ccgwjnuu9gnrrlwaaruq">https://osu.box.com/s/ccgwjnuu9gnrrlwaaruq</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Also, please rsvp for lunch by contacting Prof. J. Wu (</span><a href="mailto:wu.287@osu.edu" style="font-size: 14px;">wu.287@osu.edu</a><span style="font-size: 14px;">)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Prof. Baki Mani’s visit to OSU is organized by the OSU Asian American Studies Program and co-sponsored with the Multicultural Center, the Departments of English and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and
the South Asian Studies Program. </span></p>
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