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Desi (Basket)Ballers: Asian American Studies and The Politics of Difference

FedEx Global Education Center, Room 1009 301 Pittsboro St., Chapel Hill, NC, United States

The talk explores the relationship between race, masculinity, and class as South Asian American men play through their identities through South Asian American-only, Asian American-only, and multi-racial sporting circuits. This talk comes from Dr. Thangaraj’s book Desi Hoop Dreams: Pickup … Read more

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