Jeremy Lin: 'The great yellow hope' (op-ed)

First paragraph:
"Linsanity" makes me uncomfortable. As someone who teaches Asian-American Studies classes, I get what the craze is about. Lin is offering in the space of a few smoking months to redeem that which has always been denied to Asian-American males in the white imagination - their athleticism, their masculinity, dare I say their full humanity. For all those who have suffered being seen as nerdy, physically weak, passive, feminine, even poorly endowed - in a word, unmanly - Jeremy is a savior. Suddenly, young Asian-Americans, especially young males, have someone to cheer for, someone whose triumphs they experience as their own.

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