Asians and Pacific Islanders in American football : historical and contemporary experiences

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Asians and Pacific Islanders in American football : historical and contemporary experiences

Joel S. Franks

(Sport, identity, and culture)

Lexington Books, c2018

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-280) and index

Description and Table of Contents

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 1: Community Football 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

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