04487nam 22007575 450 991079724310332120230126213001.00-8147-6462-20-8147-6297-210.18574/9780814762974(CKB)3710000000430982(EBL)2067187(SSID)ssj0001497508(PQKBManifestationID)12589465(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001497508(PQKBWorkID)11494171(PQKB)10659836(StDuBDS)EDZ0001533195(MiAaPQ)EBC2067187(OCoLC)923734883(MdBmJHUP)muse42930(DE-B1597)546906(DE-B1597)9780814762974(EXLCZ)99371000000043098220200723h20152015 fg 0engurnn#---|un|utxtccrDesi Hoop Dreams Pickup Basketball and the Making of Asian American Masculinity /Stanley I. ThangarajNew York, NY :New York University Press,[2015]©20151 online resource (474 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8147-6093-7 0-8147-7035-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Acknowledgments --Introduction --1. Everyday Play --2. “Who Is Desi?” --3. Racial Ambiguity --4. Getting “Digits” --5. Breaking the Cycle --Conclusion --Notes --Bibliography --Index --About the AuthorSouth Asian American men are not usually depicted as ideal American men. They struggle against popular representations as either threatening terrorists or geeky, effeminate computer geniuses. To combat such stereotypes, some use sports as a means of performing a distinctly American masculinity. Desi Hoop Dreams focuses on South Asian-only basketball leagues common in most major U.S. and Canadian cities, to show that basketball, for these South Asian American players is not simply a whimsical hobby, but a means to navigate and express their identities in 21st century America. The participation of young men in basketball is one platform among many for performing South Asian American identity. South Asian-only leagues and tournaments become spaces in which to negotiate the relationships between masculinity, race, and nation. When faced with stereotypes that portray them as effeminate, players perform sporting feats on the court to represent themselves as athletic. And though they draw on black cultural styles, they carefully set themselves off from African American players, who are deemed “too aggressive.” Accordingly, the same categories of their own marginalization—masculinity, race, class, and sexuality—are those through which South Asian American men exclude women, queer masculinities, and working-class masculinities, along with other racialized masculinities, in their effort to lay claim to cultural citizenship. One of the first works on masculinity formation and sport participation in South Asian American communities, Desi Hoop Dreams focuses on an American popular sport to analyze the dilemma of belonging within South Asian America in particular and in the U.S. in general.Group identityUnited StatesMarginality, SocialUnited StatesMasculinityUnited StatesSouth Asian AmericansCultural assimilationSouth Asian AmericansEthnic identitySouth Asian AmericansSocial life and customsAsian American menSocial life and customsBasketballSocial aspectsUnited StatesBasketballUnited StatesGroup identityMarginality, SocialMasculinitySouth Asian AmericansCultural assimilation.South Asian AmericansEthnic identity.South Asian AmericansSocial life and customs.Asian American menSocial life and customs.BasketballSocial aspectsBasketball796.323Thangaraj Stanley I.authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1484049DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910797243103321Desi Hoop Dreams3702553UNINA