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A Brief History of Basketball ❖ Created at a YMCA in Springfield, MA> ❖ James Naismith - Canadian born P.E. Instructor ❖ Out of the cold ❖ Non-violent Intro to South Asian Immigration ❖ Many Indo-Pak players’ parents “were scientists, doctors, engineers, and nurses” (74). (Classed as “model minority) Sports and “Cultural Citizenship” ❖ Assimilationist vs. Pluralist ❖ “South Asian American participants, through South Asian American cultural institutions, actively engage with sport to create their own cultural contours of belonging in the US and within South Asian America-- a form of cultural citizenship…. (72) ❖ Ont just bhangra and bollywood (7) ❖ “Norm Activities” of citizenship ❖ Cultural practices and [their respective social relations produce different sets of belonging within the US national fabric” (72) Paths to Cultural Belonging Through Sport ❖ Sporting cultures ❖ Respective values and cultural norms ❖ Practices of belonging ❖ “Basketball stood as a key site for a rendezvous with US society for South Asian Americans” (80). Exclusion on the Court ❖ Varying degrees of exclusion to women and LGBTQ+ Who’s Allowed to Play? ❖ Gendered opinions of players ❖ Madeleine Venkatesh ❖ South Asian women “asked to represent South Asian tradition, culture, and purity” (87). ❖ “A good citizen in the nation (US) and in the diaspora is articulated, in a cultural and normative sense, through a tough, aggressive, sporting masculinity in relation to a traditional, passive, domestic femininity” (88). South Asians and “American-ness” ❖ Muslim NBA players as “indirect role models” ❖ Inclusion of cultural garb and language of the court ❖ “Consumption of these figures and the respective basketball aesthetics allowed for claims to American-ness on Muslim grounds” (82)....