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6. Home Field Advantage: Nation, Race, and Transnational Media Sport in Los Angeles’s Koreatown

© 2020 Duke University Press, Durham, USA

© 2020 Duke University Press, Durham, USA

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Acknowledgments ix
  4. Note on Transliteration xiii
  5. Introduction: Manufacturing Koreanness through Transnational Sport 1
  6. Part I. Situating Transnational Media Sport
  7. 1. To Be a Global Player: Sport and Korean Developmental Nationalisms 35
  8. 2. A Leveraged Playing Field: U.S. Multiculturalism and Korean Athletes 65
  9. PART II. Reading Masculinities And Femininities Through Transnational Athletes
  10. 3. Playing Hard Ball: The Athletic Body and Korean/American Masculinities 101
  11. 4. Traveling Ladies: Neoliberalism and the Female Athlete 131
  12. PART III. The Transnational Publics Of The World Cup
  13. 5. Nation Love: The Feminized Publics of the Korean World Cup 163
  14. 6. Home Field Advantage: Nation, Race, and Transnational Media Sport in Los Angeles’s Koreatown 194
  15. 7. Generations Connect: Discourses of Generation and the Emergence of Transnational Youth Cultures 222
  16. Conclusion: The Political Potentiality of Sport 250
  17. Notes 267
  18. References 303
  19. Index 323
Transnational Sport
This chapter is in the book Transnational Sport
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822393429-009

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Acknowledgments ix
  4. Note on Transliteration xiii
  5. Introduction: Manufacturing Koreanness through Transnational Sport 1
  6. Part I. Situating Transnational Media Sport
  7. 1. To Be a Global Player: Sport and Korean Developmental Nationalisms 35
  8. 2. A Leveraged Playing Field: U.S. Multiculturalism and Korean Athletes 65
  9. PART II. Reading Masculinities And Femininities Through Transnational Athletes
  10. 3. Playing Hard Ball: The Athletic Body and Korean/American Masculinities 101
  11. 4. Traveling Ladies: Neoliberalism and the Female Athlete 131
  12. PART III. The Transnational Publics Of The World Cup
  13. 5. Nation Love: The Feminized Publics of the Korean World Cup 163
  14. 6. Home Field Advantage: Nation, Race, and Transnational Media Sport in Los Angeles’s Koreatown 194
  15. 7. Generations Connect: Discourses of Generation and the Emergence of Transnational Youth Cultures 222
  16. Conclusion: The Political Potentiality of Sport 250
  17. Notes 267
  18. References 303
  19. Index 323
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