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Kristi Yamaguchi
At the 1992 winter Olympics, Japanese American figure skater Kristi Yamaguchi became the first Asian American in history to bring the United States an Olympic gold in skating. Her achievement was still not immune from racist American sportswriting back home.
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Asian American Popular Culture, Module 7
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Sunisa Lee
Gymnast Sunisa Lee, the first Hmong American to compete in the Olympic Games. Her six Olympic medals include two golds: the 2020 individual all-around and the 2024 Team competition.
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Asian American Popular Culture, Module 7
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Tiger Woods
Arguably the most successful pro golfer of all time, Eldrick Tont “Tiger” Woods, is the son of an African American father and Thai-Chinese American mother. Woods coined the term Cablinasian to reference his identity, emphasizing his array of different cultural roots.
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Asian American Popular Culture, Module 7
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Michelle Wie
Korean American golfer Michelle Wie was the first Asian American woman golfer to achieve mass recognition. She went pro just before her sixteenth birthday in 2005, and won her first and only Major, the US Women’s Open, in 2014.
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Asian American Popular Culture, Module 7
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Michael Chang
Michael Chang collapses after defeating world number one Ivan Lendl while cramping at the 1989 French Open, where he famously used an underarm serve. At age seventeen, Chang would become the youngest men’s Grand Slam singles champion in history.
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Asian American Popular Culture, Module 7
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Dave Roberts and Shohei Ohtani
Dave Roberts (left), who is Black and Japanese American and Major League Baseball’s only Asian American manager, with Japan’s Shohei Ohtani (right), whose ability to pitch and hit at elite levels have made him the most popular baseball player on earth.
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Asian American Popular Culture, Module 6
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Linsanity!
In 2012 Taiwanese American basketball player Jeremy Lin, an unheralded, undrafted bench player for the New York Knicks, was catapulted from anonymity to superstardom while fueling an exhilarating cultural moment dubbed “Linsanity.”
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Asian American Popular Culture, Module 6
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“Remembering Linsanity”
Page 4 of REMEMBERING LINSANITY from the book RISE: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now, by Jeff Yang, Phil Yu and Philip Wang. Comic by Jeremy Lin, as told to Philip Wang; art by Molly Murakami.
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Asian American Popular Culture, Module 6
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“Remembering Linsanity”
Page 3 of REMEMBERING LINSANITY from the book RISE: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now, by Jeff Yang, Phil Yu and Philip Wang. Comic by Jeremy Lin, as told to Philip Wang; art by Molly Murakami.
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Asian American Popular Culture, Module 6
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“Remembering Linsanity”
Page 2 of REMEMBERING LINSANITY from the book RISE: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now, by Jeff Yang, Phil Yu and Philip Wang. Comic by Jeremy Lin, as told to Philip Wang; art by Molly Murakami.
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Asian American Popular Culture, Module 6
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“Remembering Linsanity”
Page 1 of REMEMBERING LINSANITY from the book RISE: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now, by Jeff Yang, Phil Yu and Philip Wang. Comic by Jeremy Lin, as told to Philip Wang; art by Molly Murakami.
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Asian American Popular Culture, Module 6
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Baseball at Tule Lake
Japanese Americans incarcerated at Tule Lake compete in the 1944 league baseball season behind barbed wire fences.
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Asian American Popular Culture, Module 6
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Wat Misaka
Wat Misaka, barrier-breaking NBA player, suited up to play for the NCAA champion University of Utah in 1944.
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Asian American Popular Culture, Module 6
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“Gold”
“Gold” (2021), a collaboration between actor and singer-songwriter Ella Jay Basco and rapper Ruby Ibarra, explores the path to overcoming shame in how you look and where you come from to feeling pride in yourself — and in your skin.
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Asian American Popular Culture, Module 5
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DJ Q-Bert
DJ Q-Bert at the Nuits Sonores festival (Lyon, France) in May 2006. The rise of hip hop in the Philippines paralleled and accelerated its popularity in Filipino communities back in the States.
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Asian American Popular Culture, Module 5
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Japanese Breakfast
Michelle Zauner, AKA Japanese Breakfast, at the Day In Day Out Festival in Seattle Washington, August 2022.
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Asian American Popular Culture, Module 5
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“Dynamite”
“Dynamite,” the first all-English song recorded by Korean band BTS, debuted at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 2020. A massive global phenomenon transcending music, BTS’s cultural influence has been compared to that of the Beatles.
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Asian American Popular Culture, Module 5
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“Gangnam Style”
Comedy rapper Park Jae-sang, better known as PSY, with his viral mega-hit “Gangnam Style”—the first video on YouTube to reach one billion views.
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Asian American Popular Culture, Module 5
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Far East Movement
Far East Movement at the 2011 MuchMusic Video Awards. The all-Asian American hip hop / electronic dance group pushed Bruno Mars out of the top spot on the Billboard charts, marking the first and still the only time in history that Asian American acts occupied the two top spots.
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Asian American Popular Culture, Module 5
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Bruno Mars
Bruno Mars performing live during his 24K Magic World Tour. It wasn’t until the early 2000s that an Asian American performer would find superstardom in pop music—though many didn’t know about his Filipino American roots.
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Asian American Popular Culture, Module 5
