Sport in the Black Atlantic: Cricket, Canada and the Caribbean Diaspora (Globalizing Sport Studies)
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Janelle Joseph (Author)
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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. -- .
About the Author
Janelle Joseph teaches in the Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education at the University of Toronto -- .
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- Contributor: Janelle Joseph
- Imprint: Manchester University Press
- ISBN13: 9781784994075
- Number of Pages: 216
- Packaged Dimensions: 156x234x14mm
- Packaged Weight: 481
- Format: Hardback
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Release Date: 2017-01-23
- Series: Globalizing Sport Studies
- Binding: Hardback
- Biography: Janelle Joseph teaches in the Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education at the University of Toronto -- .
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