tailieunhanh - Outside the Paint: When Basketball Ruled at the Chinese Playground

In the fi fth grade, I became consumed with basketball, convinced that I would grow up to become the fi rst female player in the National Basketball Association. I fueled my dream by playing two- on- two at a local schoolyard with my brother and grandparents. The games combined playfulness and intensity. My brother did not hesitate to swat the basketball away from any opponent, and my grandmother had no qualms about fl agrantly fouling. | Outside the Paint When Basketball Ruled at the Chinese Playground KATHLEEN s. YEP Outside the Paint In the series Asian American History and Culture edited by Sucheng Chan David Palumbo-Liu Michael Omi K. Scott Wong and Linda Trinh Võ Benito M. Vergara J. Pinoy Capital The Filipino Nation in Daly City Sucheng Chan and Madeline Y. Hsu eds. Chinese Americans and the Politics of Race and Culture Jonathan Y. Okamura Ethnicity and Inequality in Hawaii K. Scott Wong Americans First Chinese Americans and the Second World War Lisa Yun The Coolie Speaks Chinese Indentured Laborers and African Slaves in Cuba Estella Habal San Francisco s International Hotel Mobilizing the Filipino American Community in the Anti-Eviction Movement Thomas P. Kim The Racial Logic of Politics Asian Americans and Party Competition Sucheng Chan ed. The Vietnamese American Generation Stories of War Revolution Flight and New Beginnings Sucheng Chan ed. Chinese American Transnationalism The Flow of People Resources and Ideas between China and America during the Exclusion .