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Journal of Sport & Social Issues, Vol. 30, No. 4, 340-352 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/0193723506292965

Defacements/Effacements

Anti-Asian (American) Sentiment in Sport

C. Richard King

Washington State University, Pullman

This article experiments with performative and dialogic techniques to trace the contours of anti-Asian American sentiments in sport. It suggests that jokes and joking behaviors are one the key things that binds Asian Americans to sport in the popular imaginary. Moreover, it outlines the ways that sporting humor works to efface and deface Asians and Asian Americans. Well-known utterances by Fuzzy Zoeller, directed at Tiger Woods, and Shaquille O’Neal, directed toward Yao Ming, center much of the discussion.

Key Words: Asian Americans in sport • ethnic humor • Orientalism • performative ethnography • racism in sport


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