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Willms, Nicole. "Downtown Showdown: Japanese American Basketball and the Construction of Race, Gender and Community" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Montreal Convention Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Aug 11, 2006 <Not Available>. 2009-05-25 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p102970_index.html>

Willms, N. A. , 2006-08-11 "Downtown Showdown: Japanese American Basketball and the Construction of Race, Gender and Community" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Montreal Convention Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Online <PDF>. 2009-05-25 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p102970_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: On January 4th, 2005 the University of Southern California faced the University of Oregon in a �Downtown Showdown�: a women�s Division I basketball competition in the Sports Arena of Los Angeles. The showdown was an opportunity for members of the Japanese American community of Southern California to celebrate two extremely talented point guards who are both of Japanese descent: Corrie Mizusawa of Oregon and Jamie Hagiya of USC. USC�s sponsorship of an event featuring Japanese American athletes says something about the position of these athletes as symbolic (and perhaps commodified) representations of a community, a culture, and a race. Moreover, the fact that these athletes are women playing a sport that is firmly situated at the core of hegemonic masculine dominance in sport (Messner 2002), leads to questions about the racialized and gendered nature of their iconic status. The overwhelming support by the community questions dominant understandings of gender relations within Asian American groups. The extent of these leagues � both in history and in scope � clearly show that Asian American women are not just playing sports in secret or as a form of rebellion against parents and culture (as portrayed in the film Bend it like Beckham), but also as a natural extension of their family and community. This paper reflects the data and conclusions of a pilot study and an attempt to lay out the potential empirical and theoretical implications of a larger-scale study of girls� and women�s basketball in the Southern Californian Japanese American Community.

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