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Mei Wahs
Mei Wahs (美華) refers to two separate Chinese-American girls' basketball teams dating from the 1930s. One team was in Los Angeles and the other existed in San Francisco. Both were located in their respective Chinatowns and attempted to use their achievements in basketball as a form of social capital in a land, which at the time, still codified discrimination in its laws. Most of the girls who joined the Mei Wah teams were teenagers, the daughters of first-generation immigrants who spoke Cantonese. This meant they came from low-income backgrounds, had to work in the service industry and barely lived above the poverty line. Few had hope to attend college or find suitable jobs after college.〔Kathleen Yep. "Slapping Back: the Mei Wahs, Patriarchy, and Renegotiating Gender" in ''Outside the Paint: the Racial and Gender Politics of Chinese American Basketball (1930- 1950)''〕 Translated literally, Mei Wah means "Chinese in America." As part of the wider trend in women's sports, the Mei Wahs stand out as among the notable programs in the early history of women's basketball. Their stories form part of the growing body of work regarding the history of Chinese Americans.
== San Francisco Mei Wahs ==
Competing in the women's city recreational league, the SF Mei Wahs found success by pushing an uptempo style game. The girls' teams also played other Chinese-American women's teams as well as pick-up games against males of their social group. For the most part, Chinese-American girls were unwelcome on school basketball teams; the hostility they faced spurred creation of their own teams. These athletes had to share facilities with the rest of the entire Chinese-American community in SF. At the time, one playground served the entirety of Chinatown, San Francisco. Nevertheless, the SF Mei Wahs captured their division title, two years in a row.
The Chinese-American community also had a male basketball team, named the Hong Wah Kues.
抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』
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