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Sport in the Black Atlantic

Download or Read eBook Sport in the Black Atlantic PDF written by Janelle Joseph and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-31 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Sport in the Black Atlantic
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Publisher : Manchester University Press
Total Pages : 300
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ISBN-10 : 9781526104946
ISBN-13 : 1526104946
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Book Synopsis Sport in the Black Atlantic by : Janelle Joseph

Book excerpt: This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC) open access license. 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.


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