1st Edition

Sport in the Pacific Colonial and Postcolonial Consequences

Edited By C Richard King Copyright 2014
168 Pages
by Routledge

172 Pages
by Routledge

172 Pages
by Routledge

Sport in the Pacific is a comparative consideration of the modern movement of Pacific peoples and their physical pursuits across national and cultural boundaries. It covers Australia, Japan and the United States. Its contributors ensure a deeper understanding of the indigenous peoples of the Pacific—particularly their social identities and cultural responses in the wake of the arrival of modern... Read more

1. Prologue: Exchange, Diaspora, and Globalization  2. Maori Rugby and Subversion: Creativity, Domestication, Oppression and Decolonization  3. Rugby, Pacific Peoples, and the Cultural Politics of National Identity in New Zealand  4. Changes in Assumptions about Australian Indigenous Footballers: From Exclusion to Enlightenment  5. Transnational Understandings of Australian Aboriginal Sporting Migration: Sporting Walkabout  6. Pacific Islanders and American Football: Hula Hula Honeys, Throwin’ Samoans and the Rock  7. Performing Polynesian Masculinities in American Football: From ‘Rainbows to Warriors’  8. Surfing in Early Twentieth-Century Hawai‘i: The Appropriation of a Transcendent Experience to Competitive American Sport  9. Epilogue: Colonial Legacies, Postcolonial Predicaments

Biography

C. Richard King, professor of comparative ethnic studies at Washington State University, has written extensively on the changing position of Native Americans in post-Civil Rights America, the colonial legacies and postcolonial predicaments of American culture, and the racial politics of sport. He is also the author/editor of several books, including Team Spirits: The Native American Mascot Controversy (a CHOICE 2001 Outstanding Academic Title) Postcolonial America, Visual Economies of/in Motion: Sport and Film and Native Americans and Sport in North America (Sport and Global Society Series).