We've got team spirit
Ethnic community building and Japanese American youth basketball leagues
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2147113 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christina B Chin (California State University, Fullerton, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 1070-1088 |
| Publication date | 2016-05-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethnic and Racial Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0141-9870 • E-ISSN: 1466-4356 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01419870.2015.1103878 |
| OpenAlex | W2213728547 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 32 |
This article examines the role co-ethnic youth basketball leagues play in shaping ethnic community among third- and fourth-generation Japanese American youth. With dwindling rates of Japanese immigration, increased rates of out-marriage, and fewer cultural hubs available, finding a thriving ethnic community has become a particular challenge for later-generation Japanese Americans. Drawing from ethnographic data, I argue that even among highly 'assimilated' Japanese Americans, youth basketball leagues serve as an active space for constructing and preserving ethnic community and social networks. I demonstrate how through social, cultural, and spatial interactions facilitated by sports, some Japanese Americans have found a sense of ethnic 'connectedness' within basketball leagues while performing their own renditions of ethnic identity that is simultaneously attentive to fluid local and global connections. These findings illuminate the role and importance of sport through which Japanese Americans challenges the racial contours of American-ness and belonging while claiming their place, locally, nationally, and transnationally
Basketball · Ethnic community · Ethnic group · Ethnography · Geography · Immigration · League · Political science · Social connectedness · Social science · Sociology · Sociology of sport · Thriving · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Music History and Culture · Psychology · Social Psychology · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports, Gender, and Society
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Constraints to Pickup Basketball Participation among Chinese American Women
New Concepts for Immigrant Integration and Race/Ethnicity Theorizing
Finding Identity and Community
The racial replenishment of ethnicity
God's New Whiz Kids?
Managing Multicultural Lives
It's All for the Kids
With the Boys
Community Forces, Social Capital, and Educational Achievement
Replenished Ethnicity
Immigrant Acts
Immigrant America
Race, Sport and Politics
Remaking the American Mainstream
Competing masculinities
Contemporary Asian American Communities
Aren't You a Little Short to Play Ball?”
Ethnic Options
Race, Ethnicity and Football
Pure Beauty
Japanese American Ethnicity
Constructing Ethnicity
Ballin' Indo-Pak style
Black spaces, black places
Understanding the diversity of immigrant incorporation
Introduction
Playing through differences
Peddling sport
Symbolic ethnicity
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,75 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |