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Title:

Asian American athletes in sport and society / edited by C. Richard King.

Publisher:

Routledge,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

viii, 193 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Asian American athletes--Social conditions.
Discrimination in sports--United States--History.
Marginality, Social--United States.
Group identity--United States.

Other Authors:

King, C. Richard, 1968- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n98003312

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Sport, racism, and the media / Richard King -- Beyond black and white: Chinese American women's experience in sports / Yomee Lee -- A haunt in the hunt: the Oriental specter in the Wisconsin deer stand incident / Rory J. Ong -- "Liting It Up": Indo-Pak basketball and finding the American-ness in South Asian American institutions / Stanley Thangaraj -- Cheering for our team: coverage of women's basketball in a Japanese-American community newspaper / Nicole Willms -- Sex, sports, and spectatorship: the transnational erotics of Korean athletes / Rachael M. Joo -- American memory and Chi Cheng / CL Cole -- The spring of 1989: Michael Chang, Roland Garros, and Tiananmen Square / Nancy Spencer -- Chow can coach: against model minorities within college sports / David J. Leonard -- Yo! Yao!: the "Ming Dynasty" and the construction of an Asian American identity / Anna Chow -- Living with Linsanity: a retro-diary of the Jeremy Lin phenomenon / Oliver Wang.

Series:

Routledge research in sport, culture and society ; 39

ISBN:

0415874912
9780415874915

OCLC:

(OCoLC)892620157

LCCN:

2014021422

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)