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Sport in the Black Atlantic: Cricket, Canada and the Caribbean Diaspora
Janelle Joseph
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Description for Sport in the Black Atlantic: Cricket, Canada and the Caribbean Diaspora
Hardback. An ethnographic study exploring the role of cricket in maintaining cultural connections between Canadians and other members of the Caribbean diaspora. Series Editor(s): Horne, John. Series: Globalizing Sport Studies. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJ; JFSL1; JHBS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 242 x 162 x 23. Weight in Grams: 488.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
Globalizing Sport Studies
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784994075
SKU
V9781784994075
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Janelle Joseph
Janelle Joseph teaches in the Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education at the University of Toronto -- .
Reviews for Sport in the Black Atlantic: Cricket, Canada and the Caribbean Diaspora
'Sport in the Black Atlantic provides a deep and theoretically sound look at how migrants of Caribbean origin spread across the Black Atlantic (England, North America, and the Caribbean) and make meaning of their social environments.' R. D. Sheptak Jr., Baldwin Wallace University, Choice, September 2017
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