This book sheds light on experiences relatively underrepresented in academic and non-academic sport history. It examines how Asian and Pacific Islander peoples used American football to maintain a sense of community while encountering racial exclusion, labor exploitation, and colonialism. Through their participation and spectatorship in American football, Asian and Pacific Islander people crossed treacherous cultural frontiers to construct what sociologist Elijah Anderson has called a cosmopolitan canopy under which Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders, and people of diverse racial and ethnic identities interacted with at least a semblance of respect and equity. And perhaps a surprising number of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders have excelled in college and even professional football before the 1960s. Finally, acknowledging the impressive influx of elite Pacific Islander gridders who surfaced in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, it is vital to note as well the racialized nativism shadowing the lives of these athletes.
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This study examines the historical and contemporary experiences of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders with American football. It analyzes how they have used the sport to maintain a sense of community while encountering racial exclusion, labor exploitation, and colonialism.
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Chapter 1: Community Football
Chapter 2: Playing Well with Others: Hawai'i
Chapter 3: Hawaiian Gridders, Mainland Teams
Chapter 4: Playing Well with Others: The Mainland
Chapter 5: Asian American Mainlanders and College Football
Chapter 6: The Pros
Chapter 7: Pacific Islanders
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Weaving a tale of outsider (and in this case Asian and Pacific Islander) participation in this uniquely American mainstream sport was little short of a brilliant stroke. Against the often shortsighted and error-filled back/white sport binary, this study is an absolute essential read for anyone who champions the human spirit.
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781498560979
Publisert
2018-05-04
Utgiver
Vendor
Lexington Books
Vekt
649 gr
Høyde
232 mm
Bredde
165 mm
Dybde
29 mm
Aldersnivå
P, UP, 06, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
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Antall sider
306
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