Sport in the Black Atlantic: Cricket, Canada and the Caribbean Diaspora

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.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Author: Joseph, Janelle
Published: 02/23/2017
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9781784994075
Pages: 216
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.10w x 0.90d