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Professor C. Richard . Ed(S): King - Asian American Athletes in Sport and Society - 9780415874915 - V9780415874915
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Asian American Athletes in Sport and Society

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Description for Asian American Athletes in Sport and Society 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 by presenting a comprehensive perspective on the history and significance of Asian American athletes, coaches, and teams in North America. Editor(s): King, Professor C. Richard. Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society. Num Pages: 204 pages, 4 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL; WS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 158 x 237 x 17. Weight in Grams: 418.

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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Publication date
2010
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
204
Condition
New
Series
Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
Number of Pages
194
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780415874915
SKU
V9780415874915
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Ref
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About Professor C. Richard . Ed(S): King
C. Richard King is Professor in the Department of Critical Culture, Gender, & Race Studies at Washington State University.

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