Historically, Asian Americans have been stereotyped as more brains than brawn or treated as foreigners in U.S. sports.
Growing up Asian and Black American or “Blasian” in Orange County, California, Remigio didn't feel a sense of belonging.
Historically, in U.S. sports, Asian American men have been treated as outsiders and their masculinity questioned.
Asian Americans are always kind of troubling and in this liminal space of a black-white binary, even in sports.”Arnaldo, who co-edited the book “Asian American Sporting Cultures,” said it makes business sense for the NFL to try to appeal to Asian American spectators.
There are at least two dozen NFL players of Asian or Pacific Islander descent, according to AMAZN HQ, an online hub curating news on Asians and Asian Americans in sports.
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