Asian American Athletes in Sport and Society

<p>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. This book seeks to redress this pattern of neglect presenting 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. </p>