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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
