Changing on the fly : hockey through the voices of South Asian Canadians
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Changing on the fly : hockey through the voices of South Asian Canadians
（Critical issues in sport and society）
Rutgers University Press, c2021
- : cloth
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-214) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Winner of the NASSS Outstanding Book Award
Hockey and multiculturalism are often noted as defining features of Canadian culture; yet, rarely are we forced to question the relationship and tensions between these two social constructs. This book examines the growing significance of hockey in Canada's South Asian communities. The Hockey Night in Canada Punjabi broadcast serves as an entry point for a broader consideration of South Asian experiences in hockey culture based on field work and interviews conducted with hockey players, parents, and coaches in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia. This book seeks to inject more "color" into hockey's historically white dominated narratives and representations by returning hockey culture to its multicultural roots. It encourages alternative and multiple narratives about hockey and cultural citizenship by asking which citizens are able to contribute to the webs of meaning that form the nation's cultural fabric.
Table of Contents
Contents
Dedication - iii
List of Acronyms - vii
Acknowledgements - 1
Introduction - 2
Complicating Canadian Culture - 7
Research Methods - 13
Overview of the Book - 17
Chapter 1 Myth Busting: Hockey, multiculturalism, and Canada - 21
Myth #1: Hockey is Canada - 21
Who or what are we integrating? - 26
Myth #2: Canada is a multicultural haven - 31
Whiteness in Canadian hockey - 38
Citizenship - 41
South Asians in Canada - 44
The Space of Surrey - 48
Chapter 2 Narratives from the Screen: Media and cultural citizenship - 53
Hockey Night in Punjabi - 55
Ethnic (Sports) Media - 59
Breaking Barriers - 62
Co-Authoring One's Existence - 63
Limits of Ethnic Media - 71
Chapter 3 White Spaces, Different Faces: Policing membership at the rink and in the nation - 78
Who belongs in a space? Who is trespassing? - 79
Self-Identification - 88
Brown - 92
Being the Only One - 98
Chapter 4 Racist Taunts of Just Chirping? - 101
Just chirping? - 105
Was it really racist? - 111
An archive of evidence - 119
Chapter 5 South Asian Masculinities and Femininities - 124
The irony of hockey performativity - 124
South Asian masculinities - 132
Verbal trauma and the body - 138
South Asian femininities - 143
The noisiness of women's hockey - 149
Chapter 6 Hockey Hurdles and Resilient Subjects: Unpacking forms of capital - 157
Navigating forms of capital - 166
Cost, time, and interconnections with other forms of capital - 166
Language and other aspects of cultural capital - 170
The gatekeepers - 175
Assumptions about diversity: Flaws in logic - 181
Meritocratic and resilient subjects - 185
Chapter 7 Racialized Money and White Fragility: Class and resentment in hockey - 192
Model minorities - 193
Throwing money at hockey - 199
White fragility - 204
Brown out hockey: Capitalism at its best - 209
Chapter 8 Taking Stock: Public memory and the re-telling of hockey in Canada - 217
Hockey Hall of Fame - 220
The role of media - 223
Writing in: DIY citizenship - 226
Conclusion: A commitment to the future - 232
Shifting labor - 235
Writing the wrong - 239
Appendix A: Qualitative methodology - 241
Appendix B: Participant information - 254
Appendix C: British Columbia competitive hockey structure - 256
References - 258
About the author - 296
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