American Studies 318/Ethnic Studies 318 - Asian America: Books & Dissertations

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.

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"Asian Americans have long been the subject and object of popular culture in the U.S. The rapid circulation of cultural flashpoints--such as the American obsession with K-pop sensations, Bollywood dance moves, and Sriracha hot sauce--have opened up new ways of understanding how the categories of 'Asian' and 'Asian American' are counterbalanced within global popular culture. Located at the crossroads of these global and national expressions, Global Asian American Popular Cultures highlights new approaches to modern culture, with essays that explore everything from music, film, and television to comics, fashion, food, and sports. As new digital technologies and cross-media convergence have expanded exchanges of transnational culture, Asian American popular culture emerges as a crucial site for understanding how communities share information and how the meanings of mainstream culture shift with technologies and newly mobile sensibilities. Asian American popular culture is also at the crux of global and national trends in media studies, collapsing boundaries and acting as a lens to view the ebbs and flows of transnational influences on global and American cultures. Offering new and critical analyses of popular cultures that account for emerging textual fields, global producers, technologies of distribution, and trans-medial circulation, this ground-breaking collection explores the mainstream and the margins of popular culture"

Book written in English, Pidgin English, and Uchinaaguchi.

Special issue of Social Process in Hawaii.