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.
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