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.