Sport in the Pacific

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).

• 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

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