| Sport in the Black Atlantic: Cricket, Canada and the Caribbean Diaspora Contributor(s): Joseph, Janelle (Author) |
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ISBN: 1784994073 ISBN-13: 9781784994075 Publisher: Manchester University Press OUR PRICE: $123.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Black Studies (global) - Sports & Recreation | Sociology Of Sports - Sports & Recreation | Cricket |
| Dewey: 796.08 |
| LCCN: 2017287506 |
| Series: Globalizing Sport Studies |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.1" W x 9.3" (1.05 lbs) 216 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Cultural Region - Caribbean & West Indies - Cultural Region - Canadian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book outlines the ways sport helps 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. This book offers a unique contribution to black diaspora studies through showing sport as a means of allaying the pain of ageing in the diaspora, creating transnational social networks, 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. |
