Asian American Sporting Cultures

"A wonderful read for and about sportss observers, participants, scholars, and fans. With a wide variety of approaches ranging from media analysis to autoethnography, this collection of smart and accessible essays provides a great model for thinking about sportsand through sports about ethnicity, race, and gender in specific local, transnational, and historical contexts." - Erica Rand,author of Red Nails, Black Skates: Gender, Cash, and Pleasure On and Off the Ice "Sports is one of the most important arenas of socialization and popular culture, and Asian Americans have often been seen as having a disjunctive or non-existent relationship to it. This sui generis collection shows in unexpected and startling ways how a long but under-examined history of Asian American sporting culturefrom participation and competition to spectatorship and fandomfundamentally reshapes allegories of national belonging and race at the heart of athletics." - David L. Eng,University of Pennsylvania