Sociology: sport & leisure

Sport in the Black Atlantic

Cricket, Canada and the Caribbean diaspora

Janelle Joseph. Series edited by John Horne

Description

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. 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.

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Author Biography

Janelle Joseph teaches in the Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education at the University of Toronto

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Bibliographic Information

  • Publisher Manchester University Press
  • Publication Date January 2017
  • Orginal LanguageEnglish
  • ISBN/Identifier 9781784994075 / 1784994073
  • Publication Country or regionUnited Kingdom
  • FormatHardback
  • Primary Price 70 GBP
  • Pages216
  • ReadershipCollege/Tertiary Education
  • Publish StatusPublished
  • Dimensions234 x 156 mm
  • Biblio NotesIntroduction 1. Community 2. Routes 3. Nostalgia 4. Disjunctures 5. Diaspora space 6. Nationalisms Conclusion References Index
  • SeriesGlobalizing Sport Studies

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