Posts Tagged ‘ politics ’

On Yu Na…and T-Joh!

March 10, 2010
By The Constructivist
On Yu Na…and T-Joh!

I hope everyone reads Happy Fan's fantastic essay on Olympic gold medalist figure skater Yu Na Kim. It provides a great window into the difficulties and pressures of not only training to become a world-class athlete, but to have the hopes and dreams o...
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Good Asian American, Bad Asian; or, What Do Responses to the LPGA Reveal about Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Class in America Today?

March 8, 2010
By The Constructivist
Good Asian American, Bad Asian; or, What Do Responses to the LPGA Reveal about Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Class in America Today?

Consider for a moment the following thought experiment: what if Michelle Wie had been the player to kick off the LPGA season with back-to-back wins for the 1st time in 44 years, instead of Ai Miyazato? Wouldn't we have been treated to breathless spec...
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Golf History has taken a new turn

August 16, 2009
By bill benzon
Golf History has taken a new turn

The world has changed, if only just a bit: Y E Yang wins the PGA championship, the first Asian to win a major golf championship.
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