Playing with the Big Boys

Basketball, American Imperialism, and Subaltern Discourse in the Philippines

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

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Basketball has a lock on the Filipino soul. From big arenas in Manila to makeshift hoops in small villages, basketball is played by Filipinos of all walks of life and is used to mark everything from summer breaks for students to religious festivals and many other occasions. Playing with the Big Boys traces the social history of basketball in the Philippines from an educational and "civilizing" tool in the early twentieth century to its status as national pastime since the country gained independence after World War II. While the phrase "playing with the big boys" describes the challenge of playing basketball against outsized opponents, it also describes the struggle for recognition that the Philippines, as a subaltern society, has had to contend with in its larger transnational relationships as a former U.S. colony.Lou Antolihao goes beyond the empire-colony dichotomy by covering Filipino basketball in a wider range of comparisons, such as that involving the growing influence of Asia in its region, particularly China and Japan. In this context, Antolihao shows how Philippines basketball has moved from a vehicle for Americanization to a force for globalization in which the United States, while still a key player, is challenged by other basketball-playing countries.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2015-05-01
Mått140 x 216 x 27 mm
Vikt462 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor264
FörlagUniversity of Nebraska Press
ISBN9780803255463

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Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik
Asiens historia inom Historia och arkeologi
Bollsport inom Sport, fritid och hobby

List of IllustrationsList of TablesAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction1. Spheroid of Influence: Sports, Colonization, Modernity2. From Baseball Colony to Basketball Republic: Postcolonial Transition and National Sporting Culture3. The Hollywoodization of Hoops: Basketball, Mass Media, Popular Culture4. Rooting for the Underdog: Sports, Spectatorship, Subalternity5. Basketball without Borders: Globalization and National Sports in Postcolonial ContextConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

"Antolihao provides a well-crafted narrative of the historical and social discourse of basketball in the Philippines."-Chad Carlson, Journal of Sport History "Antolihao has written a very interesting study that nobody working on Philippine basketball and baseball can ignore."-Stefan HÜbner, Journal of Asian American Studies “Attentive to the ways in which so many aspects of political and national discourse intersect with the game of basketball. Any historians working on Philippine history or the history of sport and colonialism would be well served by reading this work.”-Andrew D. Morris, professor of history at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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