Kathleen S Yep
Biographic Data
| ID | 122008 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kathleen S Yep |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kathleen S |
| FAMILY NAME | Yep |
| SIGNATURE | YEP K S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kathleen S. Yep is Associate Professor of Asian American Studies at Pitzer College and the chair of the Intercollegiate Department of Asian American Studies at the Claremont Colleges. Her research and teaching interests include cultural politics (sport and music), feminist/ antiracist pedagogies, social documentation/oral historiography, and social movements. |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Revised Naturalization Exam and Chinese Immigrants in the United States
In 2008, the United States government increased the importance of standardized English in the naturalization process. Using semistructured interviews, surveys, and participant observation data, this article explores language barriers to naturalization through a Chinese immigrant community in Southern California. As part of the nation’s fastest-growing racial group in the United States, Chinese immigrants are a significant piece of the immigration…
Linsanity and Centering Sport in Asian American Studies and Pacific Islander Studies
During my childhood, Sunday family dinners usually involved basketball. On our driveway in suburban Palo Alto, we played hotly contested shooting games of “Around the World” until we could barely see the rim, the basketball, or each other. So when the Taiwanese American Jeremy Lin from Palo Alto exploded on the National Basketball Association's stage in February 2012, my family and I were riveted
Peddling sport
Deploying liberal multiculturalist discourse, the media depicts professional basketball as a post-racial space where all talented players, regardless of their race, can thrive if they work hard. An analysis of the construction of non-white players in the 1930s and in 2010 demonstrates sport as modulated by racially charged discourse. As part of a liberal multiculturalist frame, the coding of basketball players as hero, threat and novelty serve to…
Playing Rough and Tough
Intellectual Praxes and the Politics of Analyzing Sport
Interracial Justice
Journal of Asian American Studies - Volume 4, Number 2, June 2001
Peddling sport
Deploying liberal multiculturalist discourse, the media depicts professional basketball as a post-racial space where all talented players, regardless of their race, can thrive if they work hard. An analysis of the construction of non-white players in the 1930s and in 2010 demonstrates sport as modulated by racially charged discourse. As part of a liberal multiculturalist frame, the coding of basketball players as hero, threat and novelty serve to…
Linsanity and Centering Sport in Asian American Studies and Pacific Islander Studies
During my childhood, Sunday family dinners usually involved basketball. On our driveway in suburban Palo Alto, we played hotly contested shooting games of “Around the World” until we could barely see the rim, the basketball, or each other. So when the Taiwanese American Jeremy Lin from Palo Alto exploded on the National Basketball Association's stage in February 2012, my family and I were riveted
Playing Rough and Tough
Intellectual Praxes and the Politics of Analyzing Sport
Interracial Justice
Journal of Asian American Studies - Volume 4, Number 2, June 2001
Intellectual Praxes and the Politics of Analyzing Sport
Playing Rough and Tough
Linsanity and Centering Sport in Asian American Studies and Pacific Islander Studies
During my childhood, Sunday family dinners usually involved basketball. On our driveway in suburban Palo Alto, we played hotly contested shooting games of “Around the World” until we could barely see the rim, the basketball, or each other. So when the Taiwanese American Jeremy Lin from Palo Alto exploded on the National Basketball Association's stage in February 2012, my family and I were riveted
Peddling sport
Deploying liberal multiculturalist discourse, the media depicts professional basketball as a post-racial space where all talented players, regardless of their race, can thrive if they work hard. An analysis of the construction of non-white players in the 1930s and in 2010 demonstrates sport as modulated by racially charged discourse. As part of a liberal multiculturalist frame, the coding of basketball players as hero, threat and novelty serve to…
The Revised Naturalization Exam and Chinese Immigrants in the United States
In 2008, the United States government increased the importance of standardized English in the naturalization process. Using semistructured interviews, surveys, and participant observation data, this article explores language barriers to naturalization through a Chinese immigrant community in Southern California. As part of the nation’s fastest-growing racial group in the United States, Chinese immigrants are a significant piece of the immigration…
Sociology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (4 works) · Basketball (3 works) · History (3 works) · History (3 works) · Advertising (2 works) · Aesthetics (2 works)