Sport in the Black Atlantic : Cricket, Canada and the Caribbean diaspora EPUB
by Janelle Joseph
Part of the Globalizing Sport Studies series
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This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC) open access license.
This book outlines the ways sport helps to create transnational social fields that interconnect migrants dispersed across a region known as the Black Atlantic: England, North America and the Caribbean.
Many Caribbean men's stories about their experiences migrating to Canada, settling in Toronto, finding jobs and travelling involved some contact with a cricket and social club.
It offers a unique contribution to black diaspora studies through showing sport in Canada as a means of contending with ageing in the diaspora, creating transnational relationships, and marking ethnic boundaries on a local scale.
The book also brings black diaspora analysis to sport research, and through a close look at what goes on before, during and after cricket matches provides insights into the dis-unities, contradictions and complexities of Afro-diasporic identity in multicultural Canada.
It will be of interest to students and scholars in sociology, sport studies and black diaspora studies. -- .
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- Pages:232 pages
- Publisher:Manchester University Press
- Publication Date:31/01/2017
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- ISBN:9781526104946
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:EPUB
- Pages:232 pages
- Publisher:Manchester University Press
- Publication Date:31/01/2017
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- ISBN:9781526104946
