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Perceptions of East Asian and Asian North American Athletics

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Editors:
  1. Steve Bien-Aimé

    1. Department of Communication, Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, USA

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  2. Cynthia Wang

    1. Department of Communication Studies, California State University Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA

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  • highlights inconsistencies within the field of sports scholarship
  • extends conversations about the intersection of sports media and race
  • adds much-needed literature to sports, popular culture, East Asian, and Asian American studies

Part of the book series: East Asian Popular Culture (EAPC)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvi
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  4. Sports Media Portrayals of North American Athletes of Asian Descent

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 173-173
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    2. Professional Sport, Settler Multiculturalism, and Exalted Chinese Arrivants: Re-Remembering the “China Clippers”

      • Chen Chen
      Pages 175-198

    3. Linsanity and its Aftermath: Sports Journalism Framing of Jeremy Lin

      • William P. Cassidy
      Pages 199-223

    4. Portrayals of East Asian Athletes Within NBC’s Primetime Broadcast of the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics

      • Paul J. MacArthur, Lauren Reichart Smith
      Pages 225-254

  5. Finding Oneself among Multiple Identities

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 255-255
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    2. What Makes Chloe Kim’s Return Glorious? Korean News Coverage of Chloe Kim During PyeongChang Winter Olympics

      • Seonah Kim
      Pages 257-289

    3. Contesting “Lin”inality: The Evolution of Jeremy Lin’s Racial Subjectivity

      • Stephen Cho Suh, Alex Manning, Kyle Green
      Pages 291-318

    4. Naomi Osaka, Racial Hybridity, and Black Femininity in Tennis

      • Shearon Roberts
      Pages 319-342

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 343-346
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About this book

This book highlights inconsistencies within the field of sports scholarship and provides an opportunity to open up and extend conversations about the intersection of sports media and race — particularly surrounding athletes of East Asian descent. Despite the growing influence of East Asian and Asian American/Canadian athletes, they are still underrepresented in Western media and in scholarship. This anthology adds much-needed literature to sports, popular culture, East Asian, and Asian American studies. The prominence of sports in global popular culture makes the intersections explored in this collection a crucial addition to existing conversations about both sports and East Asian/Asian American/Canadian studies.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Communication, Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, USA

    Steve Bien-Aimé

  • Department of Communication Studies, California State University Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA

    Cynthia Wang

About the editors

Steve Bien-Aimé is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at Northern Kentucky University, USA. His research interests include race and gender portrayals in sports and news media. His work has been published in Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Newspaper Research Journal, International Journal of Sport Communication and Journal of Information Policy. Prior to receiving his doctorate, Bien-Aimé worked as a copy editor at The News Journal in Delaware and The Baltimore Sun and served in a variety of functions at FOXSports.com in Los Angeles, departing as deputy NFL editor.

Cynthia Wang is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at California State University, USA. She is interested in the impact of digital communication technologies and social media on social relations, cultural practices, and power dynamics, particularly framed in perspectives of time and temporality. Her work can be found in journals such as Social Media + Society and Time & Society, and she is an author and co-editor of the books Indie Games in the Digital Age (2020) and Communicating Across Differences (2021) She is also the founder of The arqive, a digital LGBTQ storytelling map.

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