The Oriental Sporting Magazine

The Oriental Sporting Magazine
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 538
Release: 2023-08-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3368189522

Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.

When Women Rule the Court

When Women Rule the Court
Author: Nicole Willms
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2017-08-28
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0813584183

For nearly one hundred years, basketball has been an important part of Japanese American life. Women’s basketball holds a special place in the contemporary scene of highly organized and expansive Japanese American leagues in California, in part because these leagues have produced numerous talented female players. Using data from interviews and observations, Nicole Willms explores the interplay of social forces and community dynamics that have shaped this unique context of female athletic empowerment. As Japanese American women have excelled in mainstream basketball, they have emerged as local stars who have passed on the torch by becoming role models and building networks for others.

Consuming Modernity

Consuming Modernity
Author: Carol Appadurai Breckenridge
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 1995
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780816623068

The book aims to illustrate that what is distinctive about any particular society is not the fact of its modernity, but rather its own unique debates about modernity. Behind the embattled arena of culture in India, for example, lie particular social and political interests such as the growing middle class, the entrepreneurs and commercial institutions, and the state. The contributors address the roles of these various intertwined interests in the making of India's public culture, each examining different sites of consumption. The sites which are explored include cinema, radio, cricket, restaurants and tourism. The book also makes distinct the differences among public, mass and popular culture.

Asian American Athletes in Sport and Society

Asian American Athletes in Sport and Society
Author: C. Richard King
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2014-10-24
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1317595327

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.

A Companion to Sport

A Companion to Sport
Author: David L. Andrews
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 634
Release: 2013-09-10
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1405191600

A Companion to Sport brings together writing by leading sports theorists and social and cultural thinkers, to explore sport as a central element of contemporary culture. Positions sport as a crucial subject for critical analysis, as one of the most significant forms of popular culture Includes both well-known social and cultural theorists whose work lends itself to an interrogation of sport, and leading theorists of sport itself Offers a comprehensive examination of sport as a social and cultural practice and institution Explores sport in relation to modernity, postcolonial theory, gender, violence, race, disability and politics

Claiming the Oriental Gateway

Claiming the Oriental Gateway
Author: Shelley Sang-Hee Lee
Publisher: Temple University Press
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2011
Genre: History
ISBN: 1439902151

How the interests of Seattle and Japanese Americans were linked in the processes of urban boosterism before World War II.