| Subject |
Asian American athletes.
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Asian American athletes -- Social conditions.
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Group identity -- United States.
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Sports -- Social aspects -- United States.
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| Alt Name |
Thangaraj, Stanley I.,
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Arnaldo, Constancio R., Jr,
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Chin, Christina B.,
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Halberstam, Jack, 1961-
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Lowe, Lisa,
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| Description |
1 online resource |
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polychrome rdacc |
| Note |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed February 11, 2016). |
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Includes index. |
| Contents |
Asian American Sporting Cultures -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I Asian American Sports in Historical Context -- 1 From Perpetual Foreigner to Pacific Rim Entrepreneur -- 2 Reflections on Sport Spectatorship and Immigrant Life -- Part II Asian American Sporting Celebrities -- 3 Everybody Loves an Underdog -- 4 Manny "Pac- Man" Pacquiao, the Transnational Fist, and the Southern California Ringside Community -- Part III Complicating "Model Minority" Myths, Orientalism, and Gendered Stereotypes -- 5 Indian Americans and the "Brain Sport" of Spelling Bees -- 6 Mixed Martial Arts, Caged Orientalism, and Female Asian American Bodies -- 7 The Continued Legacy of Japanese American Youth Basketball Leagues -- Part IV Refugees, Pacific Islanders, and Sport -- 8 Hmong Youth, American Football, and the Cultural Politics of Ethnic Sports Tournaments -- 9 Lin, Te'o, and Asian American Masculinities in Sporting Flux -- Afterword -- About the Contributors -- Index. |
| ISBN |
9781479891443 (electronic bk.) |
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1479891444 (electronic bk.) |
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9781479840168 |
| OCLC # |
936204513 |
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