Asians and Pacific Islanders in American Football
Historical and Contemporary Experiences
Asians and Pacific Islanders in American Football
Historical and Contemporary Experiences
Description
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.
Table of Contents
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
Product details
| Published | May 04 2018 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 1 |
| ISBN | 9781978755185 |
| Imprint | Lexington Books |
| Series | Sport, Identity, and Culture |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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