How do sports and athletics participate in creating feelings of belonging and exclusion? What does that have to do with Asian American studies?

Discussion Questions (2-3):

1. How do sports and athletics participate in creating feelings of belonging and exclusion? What does that have to do with Asian American studies?
2. Can you think of other ways that sports engage in shaping our ideas of race, class, gender, sexuality, and nation? (Beyond what you have read in this article.)
3. Are sports political? Why or why not?