Sport in the Black Atlantic - (Globalizing Sport Studies) by Janelle Joseph (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>An ethnographic study exploring the role of cricket in maintaining cultural connections between Canadians and other members of the Caribbean diaspora.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>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.<p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>This book outlines the ways sport helps to create transnational social fields that interconnect migrants dispersed across a region known as the Black Atlantic: Britain, North America and the Caribbean. Many Caribbean men's stories about their experiences migrating to Canada, settling in Toronto's urban and suburban neighbourhoods, finding jobs, and travelling involved some contact with a cricket and social club. In this study Joseph brings a sport analysis to black diaspora research and shows how the cricket ground joins black Canadians as a unified community, to celebrate their homeland cultures and assuage the pain of racial terror that unifies the Black Atlantic. 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 study also brings black diaspora analysis to sport research and takes a close look at what goes on before, during, and after cricket matches to provide insights into the dis-unities, contradictions and complexities of Afro-diasporic identity. The simultaneous representation of sameness and difference among Afro-Caribbean, African-American, Black British, Indo-Caribbean and South-Asian groups in Canada is played out on the cricket field. <i>Sport in the Black Atlantic</i> describes twenty-one months of ethnographic empirical evidence of how black identities are gendered, age-dependent and formed relationally, with boundary making and crossing as active processes in multicultural Canada. It will be of interest to students and scholars in sociology, sport studies, and black diaspora studies.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><i>'Sport in the Black Atlantic</i> provides a deep and theoretically sound look at how migrants of Caribbean origin spread across "the Black Atlantic" (England, North America, and the Caribbean) and make meaning of their social environments.' <i>R. D. Sheptak Jr., Baldwin Wallace University</i><i>, </i>Choice, September 2017<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Janelle Joseph teaches in the Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education at the University of Toronto
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