On the Cultural Politics of Asian American Sports

Joo, Rachael Miyung; Pandya, Sameer

doi:10.17953/aj.41.2.ix

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“…Through answering these research questions, the present study contributes to expansion of knowledge about Korean Americans, as well as Asian Americans, regarding their involvement in spectating and following American professional sports, which is described as ‘dominant’ by Lee (2016: 23). As Joo and Pandya (2015: xv) noted, a study on ethnic spectators of sports can reveal ‘how the very ideas of community, belonging, and identity are constructed and emerge through everyday interactions and behaviours within sporting spaces.’…”

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Exploring ethnic identity perceptions of Hyun-Jin Ryu’s Korean American fans

Shin

Peachey

Park

2018

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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The purpose of this study was to understand the lived experiences of Korean American fans of the Los Angeles Dodgers’ Korean pitcher Hyun-Jin Ryu. Two research questions were developed to guide the study: (a) How are participants’ ethnic identity perceptions as Korean Americans intertwined with their fanship to Hyun-Jin Ryu? and (b) How are participants’ lived experiences intertwined with their fanship to Ryu? The study focused on the details of how fans perceived their ethnic identity in relation to Ryu’s performance and presence in Major League Baseball. Findings revealed that fans initially became involved due to their ethnic ties to Ryu and remained as fans because they felt connected to the motherland of Korea. Fans individually identified with Ryu through the perceived minority status of being Korean American in the US. Fans experienced vicarious satisfaction as they felt Ryu broke racial, ethnic, and gender stereotypes through his body image and physical performance. Consequently, they developed Korean pride when Ryu performed well. This study extends Tajfel and Turner’s social identity theory and Phinney’s concept of ethnic identity to examine fanship to a specific player rather than a team.

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Exploring ethnic identity perceptions of Hyun-Jin Ryu’s Korean American fans

Shin

Peachey

Park

2018

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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Reflection as a Method: Asian Racialization in White Sport

Park

2024

Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies

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Building upon reflexive autobiography to theorize Asian racialization in a globalizing circumstance, this paper focuses on how race is constructed transnationally by global media, and how global interconnectedness continues to project white Americanness, racialized anti-Black aesthetics, and otherization of Asianness in and through sport. I trace three historical conjunctures to build a connection between the collective history and my self-reflection on social contexts: Americanization through global media, aspiration of whiteness, and the criminalization of Blackness. With this, I attempt to articulate sport as the most convenient identity-making apparatus in immigrant America. This article concludes by highlighting the importance of the intersectionality of the asymmetric power structures that redress the miseducation that elides Asian narratives from sport.

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On the Cultural Politics of Asian American Sports

Cited by 2 publications

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Exploring ethnic identity perceptions of Hyun-Jin Ryu’s Korean American fans

Exploring ethnic identity perceptions of Hyun-Jin Ryu’s Korean American fans

Reflection as a Method: Asian Racialization in White Sport

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