Asian American sporting cultures

Foreword: Success, Failure, and Everything in Between / J. Jack Halberstam

Acknowledgements

Introduction: You Play Sports? Asian American Sporting Matters / Stanley I. Thangaraj, Constancio R. Arnaldo, Jr., and Christina B. Chin

Part I: Asian American Sports in Historical Context

From Perpetual Foreigner to Pacific Rim Entrepreneur: The U.S. Military, Asian Americans, and the Circuitous Path of Sport / Ryan Reft

Reflections on Sport Spectatorship and Immigrant Life / Shalini Shankar

Part II: Asian American Sporting Celebrities

Everybody Loves an Underdog: Learning from Linsanity / Oliver Wang

Manny "Pac-Man" Pacquiao, the Transnational Fist, and the Southern California Ringside Community / Constancio R. Arnaldo, Jr.

Part III: Complicating "Model Minority" Myths, Orientalism, and Gendered Stereotypes

Indian Americans and the "Brain Sport" of Spelling Bees / Pawan Dhingra

Mixed Martial Arts, Caged Orientalism, and Female Asian American Bodies / Jessica W. Chin and David L. Andrews

The Continued Legacy of Japanese American Youth Basketball Leagues / Christina B. Chin

Part IV: Refugees, Pacific Islanders, and Sport

Hmong Youth, American Football, and the Cultural Politics of Ethnic Sports Tournaments / Chia Youyee Vang

Lin, Te'o, and Asian American Masculinities in Sporting Flux / David Leonard

Afterword: "Competing Against Type" / Lisa Lowe.