{"id":30,"date":"2016-04-27T23:25:37","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T23:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/o-dub.com\/cv\/?p=30"},"modified":"2022-08-09T18:12:21","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T18:12:21","slug":"everyone-loves-an-underdog-learning-from-linsanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oliverwang.net\/cv\/?p=30","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Everyone Loves an Underdog: Learning From  Linsanity&#8221; (Essay, 2016)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oliverwang.net\/cv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/AA-sporting.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.oliverwang.net\/cv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/AA-sporting-683x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-131\" width=\"276\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.oliverwang.net\/cv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/AA-sporting-683x1024.jpeg 683w, https:\/\/www.oliverwang.net\/cv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/AA-sporting-200x300.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/www.oliverwang.net\/cv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/AA-sporting-768x1152.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.oliverwang.net\/cv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/AA-sporting-1024x1536.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.oliverwang.net\/cv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/AA-sporting-1366x2048.jpeg 1366w, https:\/\/www.oliverwang.net\/cv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/AA-sporting-520x780.jpeg 520w, https:\/\/www.oliverwang.net\/cv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/AA-sporting-940x1410.jpeg 940w, https:\/\/www.oliverwang.net\/cv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/AA-sporting.jpeg 1707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 276px) 100vw, 276px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Wang, Oliver. &#8220;Everyone Loves an Underdog: Learning From Linsanity.&#8221; In <em><a href=\"https:\/\/nyupress.org\/9781479884698\/asian-american-sporting-cultures\/\">Asian American Sporting Cultures<\/a><\/em>. Edited by S. Thangaraj, C. Armaldo Jr., and C. Chin. NYU Press. 2016: 75-101.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Anthology chapter (invited, refereed).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Background: This essay revisits the heady weeks in\/around the &#8220;Linsanity&#8221; phenomenon when NBA player Jeremy Lin captured the attention of both sports and mainstream media for a month or so during the late winter of 2012. The essay tries to unpack media narratives around race and success, especially in how Lin was portrayed as a kind of model minority underdog. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wang, Oliver. &#8220;Everyone Loves an Underdog: Learning From Linsanity.&#8221; In Asian American Sporting Cultures. Edited by S. Thangaraj, C. Armaldo Jr., and C. Chin. NYU Press. 2016: 75-101. Anthology chapter (invited, refereed). Background: This essay revisits the heady weeks in\/around the &#8220;Linsanity&#8221; phenomenon when NBA player Jeremy Lin captured the attention of both sports and&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3,7,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academicessay","category-asian-americans","category-race","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oliverwang.net\/cv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oliverwang.net\/cv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oliverwang.net\/cv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oliverwang.net\/cv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oliverwang.net\/cv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oliverwang.net\/cv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oliverwang.net\/cv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oliverwang.net\/cv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oliverwang.net\/cv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oliverwang.net\/cv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}