Table of Contents
Foreword: Success, Failure, and Everything in Between J. Jack Halberstam vii
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: You Play Sports? Asian American Sporting Matters Stanley I. Thangaraj Constancio R. Arnaldo, Jr. Christina B. Chin 1
Part I Asian American Sports in Historical Context
1 From Perpetual Foreigner to Pacific Rim Entrepreneur: The U.S. Military, Asian Americans, and the Circuitous Path of Sport Ryan Reft 23
2 Reflections on Sport Spectatorship and Immigrant Life Shalini Shankar 53
Part II Asian American Sporting Celebrities
3 Everybody Loves an Underdog: Learning from Linsanity Oliver Wang 75
4 Manny "Pac-Man" Pacquiao, the Transnational Fist, and the Southern California Ringside Community Constancio R. Arnaldo, Jr. 102
Part III Complicating "Model Minority" Myths, Orientalism, and Gendered Stereotypes
5 Indian Americans and the "Brain Sport" of Spelling Bees Pawan Dhingra 127
6 Mixed Martial Arts, Caged Orientalism, and Female Asian American Bodies Jessica W. Chin David L. Andrews 152
7 The Continued Legacy of Japanese American Youth Basketball Leagues Christina B. Chin 180
Part IV Refugees, Pacific Islanders, and Sport
8 Hmong Youth, American Football, and the Cultural Politics of Ethnic Sports Tournaments Chia Youyee Vang 199
9 Lin, Te'b, and Asian American Masculinities in Sporting Flux David Leonard 221
Afterword: "Competing against Type" Lisa Lowe 247
About the Contributors 253
Index 257