Asian Americans in Sport and Society
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Add to Cart- ISBN: 978-0-415-87491-5
- Binding: Hardback
- Published by: Routledge
- Publication Date: 15th June 2011 (Available for Pre-order)
- Pages: 208
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About the Book
For more than a century, sporting spectacles, media coverage, and popular audiences have staged athletics in black and white. Commercial, media, and academic accounts have routinely erased, excluded, ignored, and otherwise made absent the Asian American presence in sport. Asian Americans in Sport and Society seeks to redress this pattern of neglect. This volume presents a comprehensive perspective on the history and significance of Asian American athletes, coaches, and teams in North America. The contributors interrogate the sociocultural contexts in which Asian Americans lived and played, detailing the articulations of power and possibility, difference and identity, representation and remembrance that have shaped the means and meanings of Asian Americans playing sport in North America. This volume will be of interest to students and scholars of the Asian American experience, ethnic relations, and the history of sport.
About the Author(s)
C. Richard King is Associate Professor in the Department of Comparative Ethnic Studies at Washington State University.
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