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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ISBN
9781498560986
Publisert
2018
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Lexington Books
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Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
Digital bok
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