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.

C. Richard King is Professor in the Department of Critical Culture, Gender, & Race Studies at Washington State University.

1. Introduction: Sport, Racism, and the Media C. Richard King Society 2. Beyond Black and White: Chinese American Women's Experience in Sports Yomee Lee 3. A Haunt in the Hunt: The Oriental Specter in the Wisconsin Deer Stand Incident Rory J. Ong 4. "Liting It Up": Indo-Pak Basketball and Finding the American-ness in South Asian American Institutions Stanley Thangaraj 5. Cheering for Our Team: Coverage of Women's Basketball in a Japanese-American Community Newspaper Nicole Willms 6. Sex, Sports, and Spectatorship: The Transnational Erotics of Korean Athletes Rachael M. Joo Celebrity 7. American Memory and Chi Cheng CL Cole 8. The Spring of 1989: Michael Chang, Roland Garros, and Tiananmen Square Nancy Spencer 9. Chow Can Coach: Against Model Minorities Within College Sports David J. Leonard 10. Yo! Yao!: The "Ming Dynasty" and the Construction of an Asian American Identity Anna Chow 11. Living with Linsanity: A Retro-Diary of the Jeremy Lin Phenomenon Oliver Wang